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

2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) Lord Bastillion.
(b) Artaud.
(c) Saint-Remys.
(d) DuPlace.

3. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

4. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Southern.
(b) Western.
(c) Eastern.
(d) African.

5. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Gold.
(b) Magic.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Chemicals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."

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

3. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

4. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?

5. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

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