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

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

3. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Monte Blanc.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Indonesia.

4. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Matthew's Assassination.
(b) Rushing Water.
(c) Fleur de Lis.
(d) Daughters of Lot.

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) Mechanization.
(c) Artistry.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

5. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

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