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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 states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."
(a) Music.
(b) Words.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Vibrations.

2. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1720.
(d) 1885.

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

4. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is real.
(b) It is abstract.
(c) It exists on stage.
(d) It is anarchy.

5. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Pantheon.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?

2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

3. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

4. 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"?

5. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

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