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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. All the audience cares about is the what, according to Mamet?
(a) Narration.
(b) Objective.
(c) Thrust of the scene.
(d) Protagonist.

2. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?
(a) Show the ending in the scene.
(b) Portray a sense of character.
(c) Create subdramas.
(d) Portray the idea of a movie.

3. In Chapter 5, the hypothetical film Mamet worked on with the students involved a farmer selling what?
(a) A cow.
(b) A goat.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A pig.

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

5. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?
(a) Editing.
(b) Signs.
(c) Narration.
(d) Exposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main shot of any given scene?

2. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?

3. 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."

4. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?

5. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?

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