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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 Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The actor.
(b) The audience.
(c) The director.
(d) The set designer.

2. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Hyroglyphs.
(b) Gods.
(c) Poems.
(d) Emotions.

3. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Gutteral reactions.
(b) God-like entities.
(c) Psychological responses.
(d) Spiritual states.

4. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.
(a) Words.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Costumes.
(d) Gestures.

5. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?
(a) Music.
(b) Gesture.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

3. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.

4. 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."

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 ________."

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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