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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
2. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
3. What is the mise en scene composed of?
4. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the "perversion" of the theater of the west, according to the author?
2. How does Artaud associate culture and art?
3. How does Artaud describe the gestures of the Balinese Theater? How are they "understandable?"
4. What is the "reality" of the Balinese theater, according to Artaud?
5. How does Artaud relate theater to the painting from "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
6. What painting does Artaud describe in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
7. What does "gold" represent in Artaud's analogy of "The Alchemical Theater"?
8. What good does the author assert comes from both plagues and theater?
9. What reality should the theater reflect, according to the author in "The Alchemical Theater"?
10. What is the meaning behind the title of "The Theater and Its Double"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the painting "The Daughters of Lot." What does Artaud intimate this painting means in terms of the theater?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the term "metaphysics." Define this term and relate how the author uses it regarding the theater.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the term "Mise en Scene." What does this term mean? How does Artaud describe it? Of what importance is it to The Theater of Cruelty?
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