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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. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Poetry.
(b) True understanding.
(c) Answers to man's questions.
(d) Absolute and abstract purity.

2. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Comedian."
(b) "Poet."
(c) "Tragic actor."
(d) "Director."

3. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Matthew's Assassination.
(b) Fleur de Lis.
(c) Rushing Water.
(d) Daughters of Lot.

4. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Museum of Modern Art.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) The Pantheon.

5. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Knowlege.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

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

4. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

5. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

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