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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Pig—The Movie.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?
(a) The most artistic way.
(b) The least interesting way.
(c) The most interesting way.
(d) The most frugal way.

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the film business is caught in a spiral of degeneracy because it is run by people who have no what?
(a) Compass.
(b) Map.
(c) Craft.
(d) Structure.

3. Which story of the farmer's did the class decide to go with in Chapter 5?
(a) Saving the child.
(b) Getting rid of danger.
(c) Having no money.
(d) Getting money for food.

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

5. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?
(a) Crossbars.
(b) Glue.
(c) Nails.
(d) Beams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?

2. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

3. Where did the farmer go in the town in the hypothetical film of Chapter 5?

4. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."

(see the answer key)

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