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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 suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Incantation.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Speaking quietly.
(d) Singing.

2. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Magic.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Vocal tones.

3. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The realistic.
(b) The metaphysical.
(c) The spiritual.
(d) The music.

4. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Lucas van den Leyden.
(b) Andres Michaeleas.
(c) Hans Vernswarth.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

5. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.
(a) Metteur en scène.
(b) Dictator.
(c) Raison d'etre.
(d) Mais de scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."

2. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

3. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

4. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

5. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

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