View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."
(a) Gods.
(b) Insects.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Men.

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

5. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Emotion.
(b) Expression.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

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?

5. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

5. What reality should the theater reflect, according to the author in "The Alchemical Theater"?

6. How does Artaud draw the comparison between the theater and a plague?

7. What does Artaud write of change and civilization regarding the theater in "No More Masterpieces"?

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

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

10. What does "gold" represent in Artaud's analogy of "The Alchemical Theater"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 984 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample