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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 anarchy.
(c) It is abstract.
(d) It exists on stage.

2. 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 musician.
(b) The actor.
(c) The author.
(d) The director.

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

4. 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) A scene.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) A play.
(d) An actor.

5. 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?
(a) Are uncouth.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Are barbaric.
(d) Have no taste.

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

7. 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) Science.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Mind.
(d) Magic.

8. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Marseilles.

9. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Letters.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Behavior.
(d) Poetry.

10. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Lucas van den Leyden.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Hans Vernswarth.
(d) Andres Michaeleas.

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

12. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.
(a) Sounds.
(b) Costumes.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Words.

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

14. 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.

15. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A mask.
(b) A disaster.
(c) A god.
(d) An actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

2. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

3. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?

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

5. 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."

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