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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. 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.

2. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."
(a) The religious.
(b) The universe.
(c) The civilization.
(d) The gods.

3. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Director.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Stage.
(d) Actor.

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

5. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Cows.
(b) Cats.
(c) Swine.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

2. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."

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

4. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

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

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