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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. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Gesture.
(b) Introspection.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Magic.

2. 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) Gestures.
(b) Words.
(c) Vibrations.
(d) Music.

3. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1938.

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

5. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Permit language.
(b) Imbue poetry.
(c) Create magic.
(d) Destroy everything.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

4. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.

5. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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