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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VI. No More Masterpieces.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Musical contribution.
(c) Old language and forms of expression.
(d) True gesture.

3. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Stage.
(b) Actor.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Director.

4. 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) Mechanization.
(b) Science.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Artistry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

3. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

4. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?

5. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?

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