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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. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?
(a) The beat.
(b) The scene.
(c) The film.
(d) The shot.
2. What do you refer to when giving direction to the actor or the cameraman?
(a) The beat.
(b) The objective of the scene.
(c) The actor's focus.
(d) The interesting shot.
3. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?
(a) Stanislavski.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Hemingway.
4. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) MacDufflin.
(b) MacGriffin.
(c) MacGuffin.
(d) Objective.
5. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Signs.
(c) Editing.
(d) Narration.
Short Answer Questions
1. Mamet says that if you are telling the story with pictures, the dialogue is the sprinkles on the what?
2. According to Mamet, he lived in a house that was how many years old at the time this book was written?
3. What is the book of pictures of shots of a film called?
4. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
5. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?
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