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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. Metaphysics and the Mise en Scène.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A disaster.
(b) An actor.
(c) A god.
(d) A mask.

2. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

3. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Daughters of Lot.
(b) Matthew's Assassination.
(c) Rushing Water.
(d) Fleur de Lis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

2. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?

3. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

5. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

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