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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?
(a) In the minds of the gods.
(b) At the edge of the stage.
(c) In the center of the spectacle.
(d) At a distance.

2. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Emotions.
(b) Reality.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

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

4. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cows.
(c) Cats.
(d) Swine.

5. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Grand-Saint-Antoine.
(b) Calgiari.
(c) Saint-Remys.
(d) Sardinia.

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

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

8. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of gesture.
(b) Theater of cruelty.
(c) Theater of meaning.
(d) Theater of shadows.

9. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Brain and lungs.
(b) Pancreas and heart.
(c) Kidneys and lungs.
(d) Heart and gall bladder.

10. 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) Orpheus.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Eleusis.

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

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

13. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Beauty and language.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Religious and mystic.

14. In the Preface, Artaud writes, "If confusion is the sign of the times, I see at the root of this confusion a rupture between things and ____".
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Words.
(d) Life.

15. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Expression.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."

2. 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."

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

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

5. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

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