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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

2. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Science.
(c) Artistry.
(d) Mathematics.

3. 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"?
(a) Occidental theater.
(b) American theater.
(c) Oriental theater.
(d) African theater.

4. 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 gods.
(b) The religious.
(c) The civilization.
(d) The universe.

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

6. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Virtual.
(b) Subliminal.
(c) Stagnant.
(d) Transcient.

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

8. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) One year.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five months.
(d) Five years.

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

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

11. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Physical language.
(b) Religion.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Code.

12. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Smokescreen.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Mirage.
(d) Art.

13. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?
(a) It attacks the foundation of culture.
(b) It aims to redeem mankind.
(c) Its basis is that of pain.
(d) It resurrects tortured gods.

14. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Lie.
(c) Structure.
(d) Suspension of disbelief.

15. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?
(a) Gesture.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Music.
(d) Metaphysics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

3. 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."

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

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

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