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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. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Art.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Theater.

2. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Reason.
(b) Order.
(c) Performance.
(d) Language.

3. 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) Musical contribution.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Old language and forms of expression.

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Sappho.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Orpheus.

5. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
(a) Are uncouth.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Have no taste.
(d) Are barbaric.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

3. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."

4. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

5. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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