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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 example did Mamet use in Chapter 4 to demonstrate how you don't or do shoot a scene?
(a) A cartoon.
(b) A pig farmer.
(c) A car crash.
(d) A documentary.

2. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?
(a) Film criticism.
(b) Screenwriting.
(c) Acting.
(d) Stage directing.

3. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?
(a) Cuts.
(b) Shots.
(c) Character.
(d) Narration.

4. What do you refer to when giving direction to the actor or the cameraman?
(a) The beat.
(b) The objective of the scene.
(c) The interesting shot.
(d) The actor's focus.

5. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?
(a) Georgi Tovstonogov.
(b) Michael Chekhov.
(c) Andreas Tovstonogov.
(d) Constantin Stanislavski.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?

2. According to Mamet, "In film or in the street, people who describe themselves to you are" what?

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

5. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?

(see the answer key)

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