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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, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Dionysian.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Creative.
(d) Artistic.

2. What is the main shot of any given scene?
(a) The principle.
(b) The master.
(c) The focus.
(d) The main.

3. Mamet's house was built without what?
(a) Metal.
(b) Wood.
(c) Nails.
(d) Brick.

4. 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 K.I.S.S. Rule.
(b) The Jesus Factor.
(c) The Hippo Factor.
(d) The Rule of Circularity.

5. According to Mamet, most actors in film and stage today are what?
(a) Badly trained.
(b) Too edgy.
(c) Too self-absorbed.
(d) Well trained.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mamet say most modern art is based around?

3. According to Mamet, when the film is correctly ____, the subconscious and the conscious are in alignment.

4. According to Mamet, it is essential to cut that which has what to us?

5. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?

(see the answer key)

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