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

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

3. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Knowlege.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Emotion.

4. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) African.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

5. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Museum of Modern Art.
(b) The Pantheon.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) The Louvre.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?

3. 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 ____".

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

5. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the "reality" of the Balinese theater, according to Artaud?

3. What are the author's feelings about psychology and the theater? What of poetry?

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

5. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

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

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

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

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

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

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