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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 comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

2. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Sappho.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Orpheus.

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Permit language.
(b) Imbue poetry.
(c) Create magic.
(d) Destroy everything.

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

5. Artaud believes that theater should be the art of creating a higher meaning that cannot be what?
(a) Abandoned.
(b) Glorified.
(c) Vilified.
(d) Repeated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

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

3. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

4. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

5. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.

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