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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. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?
(a) Action.
(b) Obstacle.
(c) Objective.
(d) Conflict.

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

3. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim.
(c) Bruno Eisenstein.
(d) Werner Herzog.

4. Who characterized the notion of "judge of yourself"?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Herzog.
(c) Stanislavsky.
(d) Hemingway.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, you can't rely on the ________ to tell the story. Which of these is the correct answer?

2. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?

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

4. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?

5. Mamet says that the house has to look like a house. The ______ doesn't have to look like a house.

(see the answer key)

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