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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 his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Nature.
(c) Order.
(d) Love.

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

3. 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) Introspection.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Gesture.
(d) Magic.

4. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Action.
(b) Expression.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Entertainment.

5. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Heart and gall bladder.
(b) Pancreas and heart.
(c) Kidneys and lungs.
(d) Brain and lungs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

2. What is the mise en scene composed of?

3. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

4. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

5. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

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