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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 in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Letters.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Behavior.

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

3. 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."
(a) Science.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Mechanization.
(d) Mathematics.

4. 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 civilization.
(b) The universe.
(c) The religious.
(d) The gods.

5. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The museum.
(b) The past.
(c) The future.
(d) The stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

2. 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."

3. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

5. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What painting does Artaud describe in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

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

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

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

6. Who does Artaud hold responsible for much of the "masterpieces" he wants to demolish? Why?

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

10. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

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