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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. 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) Are uncouth.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Have no taste.
(d) Are barbaric.

2. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Gutteral reactions.
(b) Psychological responses.
(c) Spiritual states.
(d) God-like entities.

3. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is real.
(b) It exists on stage.
(c) It is anarchy.
(d) It is abstract.

4. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?
(a) The director.
(b) The author.
(c) The musician.
(d) The actor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

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?

4. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

5. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?

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