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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Permit language.
(b) Imbue poetry.
(c) Destroy everything.
(d) Create magic.

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."
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Science.
(d) Artistry.

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

4. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Monte Blanc.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Greenland.

5. 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.

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

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

8. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Metamorphoses.
(b) The Dionysian stories.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Orphic Mysteries.

9. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Music.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Gesture.

10. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) A scene.
(c) A play.
(d) An actor.

11. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Director.
(c) Actor.
(d) Stage.

12. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Spiritual states.
(b) Gutteral reactions.
(c) God-like entities.
(d) Psychological responses.

13. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?
(a) The author.
(b) The actor.
(c) The musician.
(d) The director.

14. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."
(a) Afraid.
(b) Unwilling.
(c) Justified.
(d) Incapable.

15. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Knowlege.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?

3. What is the mise en scene composed of?

4. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?

5. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?

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