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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 contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Performance.
(b) Language.
(c) Order.
(d) Reason.

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

3. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Beauty and language.
(d) Religious and mystic.

4. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Speaking quietly.
(b) Singing.
(c) Incantation.
(d) Poetry.

5. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Performance.
(b) Director.
(c) Actor.
(d) Mise en scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?

2. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

3. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?

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

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

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