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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) Expensive.
(b) Instructive.
(c) Illuminating.
(d) Useless.

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

3. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?
(a) Science.
(b) Logic.
(c) Narration.
(d) Exposition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?

2. In what year did Mamet write the Preface of the book?

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

4. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?

5. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?

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