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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. Oriental and Occidental Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Swine.
(b) Cows.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cats.

2. 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?
(a) Jouissis.
(b) Esprit.
(c) L'amour.
(d) Rioutet.

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) Daily life.
(b) The supernatural.
(c) The magical.
(d) The transcendent.

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Eleusis.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Orpheus.

5. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Emotions.
(b) Reality.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

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

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

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

5. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

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