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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 what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1945.

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) Oriental.
(b) American.
(c) African.
(d) Australian.

3. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) DuPlace.
(b) Saint-Remys.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Lord Bastillion.

4. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Andres Michaeleas.
(b) Hans Vernswarth.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Lucas van den Leyden.

5. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of meaning.
(b) Theater of shadows.
(c) Theater of cruelty.
(d) Theater of gesture.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

4. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

5. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?

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