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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 barbaric.
(b) Are uncouth.
(c) Smell bad.
(d) Have no taste.

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

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

5. 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) Beast.
(c) Monster.
(d) Puppet.

6. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The audience.
(b) The set designer.
(c) The director.
(d) The actor.

7. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Imbue poetry.
(b) Create magic.
(c) Destroy everything.
(d) Permit language.

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

9. 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."
(a) Transcient.
(b) Subliminal.
(c) Virtual.
(d) Stagnant.

10. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Calgiari.
(b) Sardinia.
(c) Grand-Saint-Antoine.
(d) Saint-Remys.

11. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Cagliari.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

2. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

3. 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."

4. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

5. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

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