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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. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 20 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?

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

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

4. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?

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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