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

2. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) One year.
(b) Five months.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six years.

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

4. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Love.
(b) Nature.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Order.

5. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Dionysian stories.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) The Orphic Mysteries.
(d) The Metamorphoses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

2. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?

3. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."

4. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

5. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?

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