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

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

3. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Beast.
(b) Puppet.
(c) Parent.
(d) Monster.

4. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Saint-Remys.
(b) Grand-Saint-Antoine.
(c) Calgiari.
(d) Sardinia.

5. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Cagliari.
(c) Paris.
(d) Amsterdam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

2. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?

3. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

5. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."

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