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

2. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?
(a) A novel.
(b) A memoir.
(c) A television show.
(d) A play.

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

4. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?
(a) The zoomcam.
(b) The steadycam.
(c) The digital camera.
(d) The dollycam.

5. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?
(a) Unattached.
(b) Inflected.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Uninflected.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

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

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

4. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?

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

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