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

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

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

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

5. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?
(a) The zoomcam.
(b) The dollycam.
(c) The digital camera.
(d) The steadycam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?

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

3. Who wrote Memories, Dream, Reflections?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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