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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. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Beirut.
(b) Africa.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Egypt.

2. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?
(a) Balinese.
(b) American.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

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

4. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?
(a) A world of artistic vision.
(b) Heaven and Hell.
(c) A world of the gods and goddesses of old.
(d) A reality where humans must have little influence or effect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?

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

3. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?

4. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

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

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