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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. Oriental and Occidental Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Puppet.
(b) Parent.
(c) Beast.
(d) Monster.

2. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Incantation.
(b) Speaking quietly.
(c) Singing.
(d) Poetry.

3. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Monte Blanc.

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
(a) Rioutet.
(b) Jouissis.
(c) L'amour.
(d) Esprit.

5. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."
(a) Music.
(b) Gestures.
(c) Vibrations.
(d) Words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?

2. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?

3. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

4. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

5. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

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