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

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

3. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?
(a) Film criticism.
(b) Acting.
(c) Screenwriting.
(d) Stage directing.

4. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?
(a) Flesh out stories.
(b) Cut.
(c) Narrate.
(d) Create characters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?

4. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?

5. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?

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