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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 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 gods.
(c) The universe.
(d) The civilization.

2. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Ritual.

3. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Suspension of disbelief.
(d) Lie.

4. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Letters.
(b) Behavior.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Thoughts.

5. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."
(a) Staging.
(b) Speech.
(c) Triviality.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?

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

4. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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?

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