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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. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1720.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1810.

2. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?
(a) False.
(b) Poetic.
(c) True.
(d) Complete.

3. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) Australian.
(b) African.
(c) Oriental.
(d) American.

4. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Reason.
(b) Language.
(c) Order.
(d) Performance.

5. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Gesture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

3. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

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

5. What is the mise en scene composed of?

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