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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 "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) Performed text.
(b) Empty performance.
(c) Poetic notion.
(d) Dramatic lie.

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Metteur en scène.
(b) Auteur de theatre.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Raison d'etre.

3. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Transcient.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Stagnant.
(d) Subliminal.

4. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.
(a) Words.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Costumes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

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

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

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