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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. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?
(a) Character.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Drama.
(d) Narration.

2. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Dionysian.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Creative.

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that it is the __________ that makes the movie. What was he talking about?
(a) Plan.
(b) Director.
(c) Actor.
(d) Shot.

4. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?
(a) Blind.
(b) Deaf.
(c) Paralyzed.
(d) Illiterate.

5. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?
(a) The Caterpillar.
(b) The Rabbit.
(c) The Cheshire Cat.
(d) The Mad Hatter.

Short Answer Questions

1. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?

2. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

3. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?

4. The first beat in the hypothetical scene of Chapter 2 was to what?

5. What is the term Mamet used for the protagonist's ultimate goal in the scene in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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