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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 believes that theater should be the art of creating a higher meaning that cannot be what?
(a) Glorified.
(b) Vilified.
(c) Abandoned.
(d) Repeated.

2. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Western.
(b) Southern.
(c) African.
(d) Eastern.

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."
(a) Parent.
(b) Puppet.
(c) Beast.
(d) Monster.

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?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Ungodly.
(c) Material.
(d) Transcendental.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

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

3. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

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

5. 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."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Artaud say in reference to totems in his Preface?

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

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

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

7. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," how does Artaud describe the downfall of the West?

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

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

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

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