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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 says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?
(a) The most artistic way.
(b) The most interesting way.
(c) The most frugal way.
(d) The least interesting way.

2. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Herzog.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

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

4. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Einstein.
(c) William of Occam.
(d) Aristotle.

5. What is the term which refers to the protagonist's immediate goal?
(a) Motivation.
(b) Obstacle.
(c) Objective.
(d) Superobjective.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?

4. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?

5. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?

(see the answer key)

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