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

2. What was in the pen in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) Food.
(b) Children.
(c) No pig.
(d) Piglets.

3. In Chapter 5, the hypothetical film Mamet worked on with the students involved a farmer selling what?
(a) A goat.
(b) A pig.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A cow.

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

5. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?
(a) The most frugal way.
(b) The most interesting way.
(c) The least interesting way.
(d) The most artistic way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?

2. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?

3. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?

4. What is the period after you've finished the shot list and before you go into shooting?

5. What was the last beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 5?

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