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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Tasks of the Director.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?
(a) To gain respect.
(b) To pay homage.
(c) To arrive early.
(d) To prepare.

2. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) Werner Herzog.
(d) Robert Benton.

3. Mamet says that if you are telling the story with pictures, the dialogue is the sprinkles on the what?
(a) Cake.
(b) Icing.
(c) Ice cream cone.
(d) Cupcake.

4. Who characterized the notion of "judge of yourself"?
(a) Stanislavsky.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Herzog.

5. Mamet says that you cannot hide your what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Action.
(b) Structure.
(c) Outline.
(d) Objective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet's house was built without what?

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 4, "If you don't know what you want, how can you know when _____?"

3. What does Mamet say happens when the problem posited by the scene is over?

4. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?

5. What does Mamet say that he defies anyone to act in Chapter 4?

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