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

2. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Narration.
(c) Storytelling.
(d) Structure.

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

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

5. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Creative.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Dionysian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

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

(see the answer key)

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