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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Memoriam: Antonin Artaud By Maurice Saillet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in addition to Shakespeare and Aeschylus does Artaud refer to as a great classicist in his "Letters on Language"?
(a) Racine.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Euripides.

2. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A disaster.
(b) An actor.
(c) A god.
(d) A mask.

3. With what director/actor did Artaud work with, as mentioned in "In Memoriam"?
(a) Racine.
(b) Jarry.
(c) Capeau.
(d) Dullin.

4. Writing of language in his first manifesto, Artaud states, "It is not a question of suppressing the spoken language, but of giving words approximately the importance they have ______."
(a) In movies.
(b) In tribal rites.
(c) In physicality.
(d) In dreams.

5. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Cagliari.
(d) Marseilles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?

2. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."

3. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

4. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

5. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?

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