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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Where Do You Put the Camera?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?
(a) Character.
(b) Plot.
(c) A tragic ending.
(d) A happy ending.

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

3. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?
(a) Back-story.
(b) Entropy.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Characterization.

4. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Uninflected.
(c) Unattached.
(d) Inflected.

5. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?
(a) Narrate a story.
(b) Relatable to everyone.
(c) Interesting in general.
(d) Carry a scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?

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

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

4. The first beat in the hypothetical scene of Chapter 2 was to what?

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

(see the answer key)

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