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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 compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A disaster.
(b) An actor.
(c) A god.
(d) A mask.

2. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Dionysian stories.
(c) The Orphic Mysteries.
(d) The Metamorphoses.

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

4. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Answers to man's questions.
(b) True understanding.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) Poetry.

5. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The set designer.
(b) The director.
(c) The audience.
(d) The actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?

2. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

3. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

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

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

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