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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. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Letters.
(b) Behavior.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Thoughts.

2. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Eastern.
(b) African.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

3. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Swine.
(b) Cows.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

4. In the Preface, Artaud writes, "If confusion is the sign of the times, I see at the root of this confusion a rupture between things and ____".
(a) Words.
(b) Love.
(c) Life.
(d) Beauty.

5. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?
(a) American.
(b) Balinese.
(c) English.
(d) Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?

2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

3. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

4. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."

5. 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 ____."

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