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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 directors should all aspire to be what?
(a) Animators.
(b) Documentary film-makers.
(c) Play directors.
(d) Actors.

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

3. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?
(a) Directors.
(b) Actors.
(c) Cinematographers.
(d) Studio executives.

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

5. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?
(a) NYU.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) Rutgers University.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

3. The smallest unit is the shot; the largest unit is what?

4. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

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

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