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

2. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?
(a) Capra.
(b) Morrison.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Einstein.

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

4. 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.

5. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that it is the __________ that makes the movie. What was he talking about?
(a) Shot.
(b) Plan.
(c) Actor.
(d) Director.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?

2. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?

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

4. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

5. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?

(see the answer key)

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