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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) Grand-Saint-Antoine.
(b) Calgiari.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Saint-Remys.

2. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Physical language.
(c) Religion.
(d) Code.

3. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The music.
(b) The metaphysical.
(c) The spiritual.
(d) The realistic.

4. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) The magical.
(b) Daily life.
(c) The supernatural.
(d) The transcendent.

5. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Southern.
(b) African.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.

3. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?

4. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

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

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