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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Pig—The Movie.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mamet wrote, "Most _____ directors approach it by saying, 'let's follow the actors around,' as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did."
(a) Italian.
(b) Japanese.
(c) American.
(d) French.

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Plato.

4. What example did Mamet use in Chapter 4 to demonstrate how you don't or do shoot a scene?
(a) A cartoon.
(b) A car crash.
(c) A pig farmer.
(d) A documentary.

5. What is the first way suggested by students in the class for shooting a scene of a bunch of people coming to class?
(a) From below.
(b) As a closeup.
(c) From above.
(d) At head level.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamet say happens when the problem posited by the scene is over?

2. According to Mamet, what actor did he laud for his simplicity in a scene which involved the Nazis, in Chapter 4?

3. What did the pig do in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?

4. Mamet's house was built without what?

5. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?

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