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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, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Narration.
(b) Circularity.
(c) Elaboration.
(d) Characterization.

2. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?
(a) Action.
(b) Objective.
(c) Obstacle.
(d) Conflict.

3. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?
(a) Narration.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Character.
(d) Drama.

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

5. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?
(a) Directors.
(b) Actors.
(c) Cinematographers.
(d) Studio executives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?

3. The first beat in the hypothetical scene of Chapter 2 was to what?

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

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

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