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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 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 ____."
(a) Science.
(b) Magic.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Mind.

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

3. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Beirut.
(c) Africa.
(d) Istanbul.

4. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."
(a) Dramatic lie.
(b) Empty performance.
(c) Poetic notion.
(d) Performed text.

5. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Art.
(b) Smokescreen.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Mirage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

2. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

3. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

4. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

5. 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?

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