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

2. In ADR, what does D stand for?
(a) Drive.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Density.
(d) Dictation.

3. What is the rule which Mamet says means "Keep it simple, stupid"?
(a) Film rule.
(b) Idiot rule.
(c) KISS rule.
(d) Shooting rule.

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 documentary.
(c) A pig farmer.
(d) A car crash.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?

2. Once the story has found an ending, Mamet says you can look back over the shot list and answer what question?

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?

4. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?

5. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?

(see the answer key)

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