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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. 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) Love.
(b) Words.
(c) Life.
(d) Beauty.

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Raison d'etre.
(b) Auteur de theatre.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Metteur en scène.

3. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Heart and gall bladder.
(b) Pancreas and heart.
(c) Kidneys and lungs.
(d) Brain and lungs.

4. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Performance.
(c) Director.
(d) Actor.

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 future.
(b) The museum.
(c) The stage.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

3. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

4. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?

5. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

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

7. What good does the author assert comes from both plagues and theater?

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

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

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

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