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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. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?
(a) Art.
(b) Religion.
(c) Truth.
(d) Civilization.

2. 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 ____".
(a) Words.
(b) Life.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

3. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A mask.
(b) An actor.
(c) A disaster.
(d) A god.

4. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Matthew's Assassination.
(b) Daughters of Lot.
(c) Rushing Water.
(d) Fleur de Lis.

5. 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) Mise en scene.
(b) An actor.
(c) A play.
(d) A scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."

3. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

4. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?

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.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

9. What is the link between art and culture in the Occidental theater? How must this change, according to Artaud?

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

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