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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 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.

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

3. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) Africa.
(b) Asia.
(c) Mexico.
(d) America.

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

5. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Religious and mystic.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Beauty and language.
(d) Psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."

2. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

3. 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."

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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