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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) Order.
(c) Reason.
(d) Language.

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

3. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A disaster.
(b) An actor.
(c) A mask.
(d) A god.

4. What is the mise en scene composed of?
(a) Psychological awareness.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Everything around production.
(d) Acting.

5. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."
(a) Insects.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Gods.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?

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

3. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."

4. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

5. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

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