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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Magic.
(d) Gold.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

2. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

3. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."

4. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the author's feelings about psychology and the theater? What of poetry?

2. How does Artaud describe the gestures of the Balinese Theater? How are they "understandable?"

3. What must occur for the theater to be restored, according to the author?

4. What reality should the theater reflect, according to the author in "The Alchemical Theater"?

5. What does Artaud write about the message of the painting he describes in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

6. What are the sources of the essays in "The Balinese Theater"?

7. What does the author claim is the reasoning behind why the public is turning away from the "higher" arts in "No More Masterpieces"?

8. What is the link between art and culture in the Occidental theater? How must this change, according to Artaud?

9. What does Artaud say in reference to totems in his Preface?

10. What replaces the playwright in the Balinese Theater? How is this figure described?

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