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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is real.
(b) It is abstract.
(c) It exists on stage.
(d) It is anarchy.

2. 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 gods.
(c) The religious.
(d) The universe.

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

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

5. 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) Emotion.
(b) Expression.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Action.

6. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Director.
(c) Actor.
(d) Performance.

7. 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) Artistry.
(b) Science.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Mechanization.

8. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Order.
(c) Love.
(d) Civilization.

9. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Performance.
(b) Language.
(c) Order.
(d) Reason.

10. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Gestures.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Vocal tones.

11. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?
(a) Its basis is that of pain.
(b) It aims to redeem mankind.
(c) It attacks the foundation of culture.
(d) It resurrects tortured gods.

12. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) True understanding.
(b) Answers to man's questions.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) Poetry.

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

14. What is the mise en scene composed of?
(a) Everything around production.
(b) Psychological awareness.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Acting.

15. 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) Jouissis.
(b) Esprit.
(c) Rioutet.
(d) L'amour.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

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

3. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."

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

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

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