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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Where Do You Put the Camera?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main shot of any given scene?
(a) The main.
(b) The master.
(c) The focus.
(d) The principle.

2. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

3. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Capra.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Einstein.

4. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?
(a) Cut.
(b) Narrate.
(c) Flesh out stories.
(d) Create characters.

5. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?
(a) The teacher's respect.
(b) To sell a pig.
(c) Money.
(d) The students' respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first way suggested by students in the class for shooting a scene of a bunch of people coming to class?

2. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?

3. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?

4. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?

5. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?

(see the answer key)

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