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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. Mamet says that it's not the actor's job to be emotional. It's the actor's job to be what?
(a) In the scene.
(b) Honest.
(c) Direct.
(d) In character.

2. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) MacGuffin.
(b) MacDufflin.
(c) Objective.
(d) MacGriffin.

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?
(a) Carey Grant.
(b) Humphrey Bogart.
(c) Donna Reed.
(d) James Stewart.

4. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Hemingway.

5. According to Mamet, what actor did he laud for his simplicity in a scene which involved the Nazis, in Chapter 4?
(a) James Stewart.
(b) Clifton Hayes.
(c) Humphrey Bogart.
(d) Carey Grant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is another term for "looping"?

3. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?

4. What is the term which refers to the protagonist's immediate goal?

5. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?

(see the answer key)

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