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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 what year did Mamet write the Preface of the book?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

2. What is the first way suggested by students in the class for shooting a scene of a bunch of people coming to class?
(a) As a closeup.
(b) From below.
(c) From above.
(d) At head level.

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?

2. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

3. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?

4. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?

5. What is the main shot of any given scene?

(see the answer key)

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