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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) The supernatural.
(b) The transcendent.
(c) Daily life.
(d) The magical.

4. 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."
(a) Staging.
(b) Speech.
(c) Triviality.
(d) Music.

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

6. 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) Love.
(c) Order.
(d) Civilization.

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

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

9. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Parent.
(b) Puppet.
(c) Beast.
(d) Monster.

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) Sappho.
(b) Eleusis.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) Odysseus.

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

12. 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 gods.
(b) The civilization.
(c) The religious.
(d) The universe.

13. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
(a) Magic.
(b) Science.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Mind.

14. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) Australian.
(b) Oriental.
(c) American.
(d) African.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

2. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

3. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.

4. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

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

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