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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 sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Beauty and language.
(c) Religious and mystic.
(d) Aesthetic.

2. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?
(a) Complete.
(b) Poetic.
(c) True.
(d) False.

3. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) An actor.
(b) A mask.
(c) A disaster.
(d) A god.

4. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) Australian.
(b) American.
(c) Oriental.
(d) African.

5. 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?
(a) Are uncouth.
(b) Are barbaric.
(c) Smell bad.
(d) Have no taste.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

3. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

4. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

5. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

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