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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is real.
(b) It exists on stage.
(c) It is abstract.
(d) It is anarchy.

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) Poetic.
(b) Complete.
(c) True.
(d) False.

3. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Performance.
(b) Director.
(c) Actor.
(d) Mise en scene.

4. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Marx Brothers.
(b) Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Abbott and Costello.
(d) Lucy and Desi.

5. In the Preface, Artaud writes, "If confusion is the sign of the times, I see at the root of this confusion a rupture between things and ____".
(a) Life.
(b) Love.
(c) Words.
(d) Beauty.

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

7. 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."
(a) Puppet.
(b) Monster.
(c) Beast.
(d) Parent.

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

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

10. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) African.
(b) Western.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Southern.

11. 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) Mise en scene.
(c) A scene.
(d) An actor.

12. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Introspection.
(c) Magic.
(d) Gesture.

13. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Answers to man's questions.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) True understanding.

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

15. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Eleusis.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Orpheus.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.

4. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

5. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."

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