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

2. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Theater.
(c) Art.
(d) Poetry.

3. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?
(a) Lucy and Desi.
(b) Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Abbott and Costello.
(d) The Marx Brothers.

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
(a) Rioutet.
(b) L'amour.
(c) Jouissis.
(d) Esprit.

5. 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?
(a) Material.
(b) Ungodly.
(c) Transcendental.
(d) Spiritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

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

3. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?

4. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?

5. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?

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