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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. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Theater.
(b) Art.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Alchemy.

2. 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) Raison d'etre.
(b) Mais de scene.
(c) Dictator.
(d) Metteur en scène.

3. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?
(a) A play.
(b) A scene.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) An actor.

4. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Gestures.
(c) Vocal tones.
(d) Emotions.

5. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Kidneys and lungs.
(b) Brain and lungs.
(c) Heart and gall bladder.
(d) Pancreas and heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?

2. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

3. What is the mise en scene composed of?

4. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

5. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

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