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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Daughters of Lot.
(b) Matthew's Assassination.
(c) Fleur de Lis.
(d) Rushing Water.

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

4. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Speaking quietly.
(c) Singing.
(d) Incantation.

5. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Africa.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Beirut.

6. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) Mexico.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Asia.

7. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The actor.
(b) The director.
(c) The set designer.
(d) The audience.

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

9. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?
(a) Read it and throw it away.
(b) Maintain it.
(c) Redevelop it.
(d) Reinvent it.

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

11. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."
(a) The civilization.
(b) The universe.
(c) The gods.
(d) The religious.

12. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
(a) Esprit.
(b) L'amour.
(c) Jouissis.
(d) Rioutet.

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

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

15. 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?
(a) Music.
(b) Classic texts.
(c) Actors.
(d) Directors.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."

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

4. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

5. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

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