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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. 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) Rioutet.
(b) L'amour.
(c) Esprit.
(d) Jouissis.

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Raison d'etre.
(b) Auteur de theatre.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Metteur en scène.

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

4. Artaud believes that theater should be the art of creating a higher meaning that cannot be what?
(a) Abandoned.
(b) Repeated.
(c) Glorified.
(d) Vilified.

5. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.
(a) Raison d'etre.
(b) Mais de scene.
(c) Metteur en scène.
(d) Dictator.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?

2. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

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

4. 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."

5. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commonality does Artaud assert between Alchemy and the theater?

2. What are the sources of the essays in "The Balinese Theater"?

3. What is the principle limitation of the current theater, as described by the author in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

4. What does Artaud write of civilization and culture in his Preface?

5. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

6. What does the author claim is the reasoning behind why the public is turning away from the "higher" arts in "No More Masterpieces"?

7. How does Artaud relate theater to the painting from "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

8. What must occur for the theater to be restored, according to the author?

9. What replaces the playwright in the Balinese Theater? How is this figure described?

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

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