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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Where Do You Put the Camera?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Narrating.
(b) Active.
(c) Interesting.
(d) Heroic.

2. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Herzog.
(d) Frank Capra.

3. What was the third beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2?
(a) Waiting.
(b) Preparing.
(c) Homage.
(d) Respect.

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

5. What is a progression toward the simplest, most ordered state, according to Mamet in Chapter 2?
(a) Delineation.
(b) Entropy.
(c) Streamlining.
(d) Examination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term Mamet used for the protagonist's ultimate goal in the scene in Chapter 2?

2. Mamet wrote, "Most _____ directors approach it by saying, 'let's follow the actors around,' as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did."

3. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?

4. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?

5. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?

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