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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Monte Blanc.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Indonesia.

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

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Poetics.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Ritual.

6. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of cruelty.
(b) Theater of meaning.
(c) Theater of gesture.
(d) Theater of shadows.

7. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Reality.
(b) God.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Love.

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

9. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Love.
(b) Nature.
(c) Order.
(d) Civilization.

10. 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) Emotion.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Knowlege.

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

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

13. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Dionysian stories.
(c) The Orphic Mysteries.
(d) The Metamorphoses.

14. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Reason.
(b) Performance.
(c) Language.
(d) Order.

15. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Psychological responses.
(b) God-like entities.
(c) Spiritual states.
(d) Gutteral reactions.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."

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

4. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

5. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

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