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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 cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?
(a) A happy ending.
(b) Character.
(c) A tragic ending.
(d) Plot.

2. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?
(a) Narration.
(b) Characterization.
(c) Storytelling.
(d) Structure.

3. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

4. According to Mamet, it is essential to cut that which has what to us?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Deep personal meaning.
(c) Explanation.
(d) Narration.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?

3. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?

4. What was the third beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2?

5. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

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