The Theater and Its Double Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Theater and Its Double Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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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 comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

2. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."
(a) The universe.
(b) The gods.
(c) The civilization.
(d) The religious.

3. What is the mise en scene composed of?
(a) Psychological awareness.
(b) Everything around production.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Acting.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

3. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

4. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."

5. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

(see the answer key)

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