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

2. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Theater.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Art.

3. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1938.

4. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of gesture.
(b) Theater of shadows.
(c) Theater of cruelty.
(d) Theater of meaning.

5. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Transcient.
(b) Stagnant.
(c) Subliminal.
(d) Virtual.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

3. 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.

4. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

5. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

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