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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 diminishes the value of the theater?
(a) Gesture.
(b) Music.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Psychology.

2. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Poetics.

3. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Introspection.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Gesture.

4. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Magic.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Gold.

5. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."
(a) Empty performance.
(b) Performed text.
(c) Dramatic lie.
(d) Poetic notion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?

2. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

3. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?

4. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What reality should the theater reflect, according to the author in "The Alchemical 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 is the "reality" of the Balinese theater, according to Artaud?

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

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

6. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

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

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

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

10. How does Artaud relate theater to the painting from "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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