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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. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Entropy.
(c) Back-story.
(d) Characterization.

2. What is the term which means "it works correctly on paper but for some reason doesn't work when we get it on its feet"?
(a) The K.I.S.S. Rule.
(b) The Jesus Factor.
(c) The Hippo Factor.
(d) The Rule of Circularity.

3. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Werner Herzog.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) Robert Benton.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

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

5. 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."
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) American.
(d) Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?

3. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?

4. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?

5. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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