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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 that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."
(a) The religious.
(b) The gods.
(c) The universe.
(d) The civilization.

2. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
(a) True gesture.
(b) Old language and forms of expression.
(c) Musical contribution.
(d) Poetry.

3. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) American.
(b) Oriental.
(c) Australian.
(d) African.

4. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Hans Vernswarth.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Lucas van den Leyden.
(d) Andres Michaeleas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?

2. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."

3. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?

4. 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.

5. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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