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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) True understanding.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) Answers to man's questions.

2. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) Mexico.
(b) Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) America.

3. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Rome.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Sicily.

4. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."
(a) The universe.
(b) The civilization.
(c) The gods.
(d) The religious.

5. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Mechanization.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?

3. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."

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

5. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

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