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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. Who characterized the notion of "judge of yourself"?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Stanislavsky.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Herzog.

2. What is another term for "looping"?
(a) ADR.
(b) Steadicam.
(c) Voiceover.
(d) Editing.

3. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

4. Anytime anyone does what, "that's a counterforce"?
(a) Shows emotion.
(b) Narrates the back-story.
(c) Tells the truth.
(d) Extols empathy.

5. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?
(a) Editing.
(b) Narration.
(c) Signs.
(d) Exposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?

2. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?

3. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?

4. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that a lot of the decisions you think are going to be arbitrary are arrived at through the what?

5. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

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