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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 logical construct did Mamet use to explain the system of film-making in Chapter 3?
(a) If A, then C.
(b) If A, then B.
(c) N plus R is P.
(d) A plus B is C.

2. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?
(a) The beat.
(b) The scene.
(c) The film.
(d) The shot.

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

4. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?
(a) Deaf.
(b) Paralyzed.
(c) Blind.
(d) Illiterate.

5. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Heroic.
(c) Narrating.
(d) Active.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mamet, film directors should all aspire to be what?

3. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?

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

5. Who did Mamet compare with Frank Capra in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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