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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. What did the pig do in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) Ran away.
(b) Attacked the farmer.
(c) Died.
(d) Rode the girl on his back.

2. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?
(a) William of Occam.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Aristotle.

3. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?
(a) Interesting in general.
(b) Carry a scene.
(c) Narrate a story.
(d) Relatable to everyone.

4. According to Mamet, he lived in a house that was how many years old at the time this book was written?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mamet go to college?

2. What was the impetus for the beginning of Citizen Kane?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."

4. A film is basically what, according to Mamet?

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

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