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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. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Werner Herzog.
(b) Bruno Eisenstein.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim.

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

3. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?
(a) Plot.
(b) A tragic ending.
(c) A happy ending.
(d) Character.

4. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) NYU.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, it is essential to cut that which has what to us?

2. According to Mamet, film directors should all aspire to be what?

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

4. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

5. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?

(see the answer key)

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