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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet's house was built without what?
(a) Metal.
(b) Wood.
(c) Brick.
(d) Nails.

2. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Circularity.
(c) Narration.
(d) Elaboration.

3. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?
(a) Cuts.
(b) Character.
(c) Narration.
(d) Shots.

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

5. Where did Mamet go to college?
(a) New York.
(b) Maine.
(c) Boston.
(d) Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamet say is the ordering of unrelated events or ideas or images in favor of an overriding preconception?

2. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?

3. In ADR, what does D stand for?

4. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?

5. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?

(see the answer key)

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