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

2. 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) Ungodly.
(b) Material.
(c) Transcendental.
(d) Spiritual.

3. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Poetry.

4. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Gold.
(d) Magic.

5. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Six years.
(b) Five months.
(c) One year.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what?

3. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."

4. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

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

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