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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 directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Frank Capra.
(b) Robert Benton.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Werner Herzog.

2. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?
(a) Create impediments.
(b) Fight back against you.
(c) Work with you.
(d) Create roadblocks.

3. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Bruno Eisenstein.
(c) Werner Herzog.
(d) Carl Jung.

4. What did Stanislavsky say is needed alone to support the text?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Character.
(c) Action.
(d) Narration.

5. Counterculture architecture was based on designing buildings based on what?
(a) The setting.
(b) The natural surroundings.
(c) The weather.
(d) How the architect felt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?

2. According to Mamet, you can't rely on the ________ to tell the story. Which of these is the correct answer?

3. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

4. What logical construct did Mamet use to explain the system of film-making in Chapter 3?

5. What does Mamet say most modern art is based around?

(see the answer key)

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