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

Multiple Choice 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."
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Code.
(d) Physical language.

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

3. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Art.
(c) Religion.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

7. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."
(a) Vibrations.
(b) Music.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Words.

8. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The realistic.
(b) The spiritual.
(c) The music.
(d) The metaphysical.

9. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?
(a) English.
(b) Balinese.
(c) Italian.
(d) American.

10. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) True gesture.
(c) Musical contribution.
(d) Old language and forms of expression.

11. 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) Unwilling.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Incapable.
(d) Justified.

12. 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.

13. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Suspension of disbelief.
(c) Lie.
(d) Anarchy.

14. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Poetics.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Imagery.

15. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Poet."
(b) "Tragic actor."
(c) "Comedian."
(d) "Director."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

2. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?

3. 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."

4. 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?

5. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

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