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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Magic.
(b) Gold.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Chemicals.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Stage.
(b) Director.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Actor.

8. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Psychological responses.
(b) Gutteral reactions.
(c) Spiritual states.
(d) God-like entities.

9. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1720.

10. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

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

12. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of cruelty.
(b) Theater of shadows.
(c) Theater of meaning.
(d) Theater of gesture.

13. 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) Puppet.
(b) Monster.
(c) Beast.
(d) Parent.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

2. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

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

4. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

5. 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 ____."

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