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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VI. No More Masterpieces.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Speaking quietly.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Incantation.
(d) Singing.

3. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.
(a) Dictator.
(b) Metteur en scène.
(c) Raison d'etre.
(d) Mais de scene.

4. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Knowlege.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Emotion.

5. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Stage.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Director.
(d) Actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

2. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

3. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?

4. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

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