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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. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Six years.
(b) Five months.
(c) One year.
(d) Five years.

2. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Gestures.
(b) Vocal tones.
(c) Magic.
(d) Emotions.

3. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1720.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1885.

4. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Poems.
(c) Hyroglyphs.
(d) Gods.

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) Vibrations.
(c) Words.
(d) Gestures.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

2. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

4. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."

5. 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."

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