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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 which means "it works correctly on paper but for some reason doesn't work when we get it on its feet"?
(a) The Rule of Circularity.
(b) The K.I.S.S. Rule.
(c) The Hippo Factor.
(d) The Jesus Factor.

2. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?
(a) Stanislavski.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Chekhov.

3. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?
(a) To prepare.
(b) To pay homage.
(c) To gain respect.
(d) To arrive early.

4. What is a progression toward the simplest, most ordered state, according to Mamet in Chapter 2?
(a) Examination.
(b) Delineation.
(c) Streamlining.
(d) Entropy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?

2. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

3. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

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

5. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?

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