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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 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) True gesture.
(c) Musical contribution.
(d) Old language and forms of expression.

2. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Expression.
(c) Action.
(d) Emotion.

3. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?
(a) A play.
(b) A scene.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) An actor.

4. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) The magical.
(b) Daily life.
(c) The supernatural.
(d) The transcendent.

5. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Love.
(d) Order.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

3. Artaud believes that theater should be the art of creating a higher meaning that cannot be what?

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

5. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

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