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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 subheading of Chapter 4?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Where Do You Put the Camera?
(c) Pig - The Movie.
(d) What to Tell the Actors and Where to Put the Camera.

2. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?
(a) The steadycam.
(b) The dollycam.
(c) The digital camera.
(d) The zoomcam.

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Sophocles.

4. Mamet's house was built without what?
(a) Metal.
(b) Wood.
(c) Nails.
(d) Brick.

5. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Elaboration.
(c) Circularity.
(d) Narration.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?

2. What, according to Mamet, is the answer to, "Where do we put the camera?"

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

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

5. Counterculture architecture was based on designing buildings based on what?

(see the answer key)

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