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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III. The Alchemical Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cagliari.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Amsterdam.

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

5. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Destroy everything.
(b) Create magic.
(c) Imbue poetry.
(d) Permit language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

2. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

3. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

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

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