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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 is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Action.
(c) Objective.
(d) Conflict.

2. 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) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

3. Mamet says that if you are telling the story with pictures, the dialogue is the sprinkles on the what?
(a) Icing.
(b) Ice cream cone.
(c) Cake.
(d) Cupcake.

4. In ADR, what does D stand for?
(a) Dictation.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Drive.
(d) Density.

5. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) Herzog.
(d) Eisenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

2. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

3. Who did Mamet cite in saying that we needn't avoid things just because they're cliche?

4. Mamet says that you cannot hide your what, in Chapter 3?

5. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?

(see the answer key)

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