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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?
(a) A world of the gods and goddesses of old.
(b) Heaven and Hell.
(c) A world of artistic vision.
(d) A reality where humans must have little influence or effect.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?

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

3. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."

4. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

5. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?

Short Essay Questions

1. What painting does Artaud describe in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

2. How does the author describe the effects of a plague on civilization?

3. What does Artaud say in reference to totems in his Preface?

4. How does Artaud describe the gestures of the Balinese Theater? How are they "understandable?"

5. In what reference does Artaud comment on Plato in "The Alchemical Theater"?

6. What is the meaning behind the title of "The Theater and Its Double"?

7. What is the "perversion" of the theater of the west, according to the author?

8. What does Artaud write about the message of the painting he describes in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

9. What did Saint-Remys do following his dream of the plague?

10. What good does the author assert comes from both plagues and theater?

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