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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 unit does the director want to concern himself with?
(a) The scene.
(b) The shot.
(c) The beat.
(d) The film.

2. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?
(a) Constantin Stanislavski.
(b) Andreas Tovstonogov.
(c) Georgi Tovstonogov.
(d) Michael Chekhov.

3. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?
(a) Illuminating.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Useless.
(d) Instructive.

4. Who did Mamet cite in saying that we needn't avoid things just because they're cliche?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Stanislavsky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main shot of any given scene?

2. What is the first way suggested by students in the class for shooting a scene of a bunch of people coming to class?

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

4. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?

5. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?

(see the answer key)

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