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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?
(a) True.
(b) Complete.
(c) Poetic.
(d) False.

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

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Five months.
(b) One year.
(c) Six years.
(d) Five years.

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?
(a) Music.
(b) Directors.
(c) Actors.
(d) Classic texts.

5. 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) Order.
(c) Nature.
(d) Love.

6. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Singing.
(b) Incantation.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Speaking quietly.

7. 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.

8. 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) Life.
(b) Words.
(c) Love.
(d) Beauty.

9. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The museum.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) The stage.

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

11. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) Saint-Remys.
(b) DuPlace.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Lord Bastillion.

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

13. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

14. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Gesture.
(d) Introspection.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?

3. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?

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."

5. 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"?

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