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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. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
(a) Are uncouth.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Are barbaric.
(d) Have no taste.

2. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Director.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Performance.
(d) Actor.

3. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Speaking quietly.
(b) Incantation.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Singing.

4. In the Preface, Artaud writes, "If confusion is the sign of the times, I see at the root of this confusion a rupture between things and ____".
(a) Life.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Words.

5. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?
(a) At the edge of the stage.
(b) In the center of the spectacle.
(c) At a distance.
(d) In the minds of the gods.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?

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

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. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?

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