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

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

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that it is the __________ that makes the movie. What was he talking about?
(a) Actor.
(b) Shot.
(c) Director.
(d) Plan.

4. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Active.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Heroic.
(d) Narrating.

5. Who wrote Memories, Dream, Reflections?
(a) Constantin Stanislavsky.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Bruno Bettelheim.
(d) Carl Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?

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. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?

4. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?

5. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?

(see the answer key)

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