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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. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
(a) Smell bad.
(b) Are uncouth.
(c) Are barbaric.
(d) Have no taste.

3. 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) Jouissis.
(b) Esprit.
(c) L'amour.
(d) Rioutet.

4. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) Mexico.
(b) America.
(c) Asia.
(d) Africa.

5. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The director.
(b) The set designer.
(c) The actor.
(d) The audience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?

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

4. 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."

5. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

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