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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Chapter 1: Storytelling.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Narrating.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Active.
(d) Heroic.

4. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?
(a) Drama.
(b) Narration.
(c) Character.
(d) Exposition.

5. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?
(a) Illuminating.
(b) Instructive.
(c) Useless.
(d) Expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

2. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?

3. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?

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

5. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?

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