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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 said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) William of Occam.

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

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Heroic.
(c) Narrating.
(d) Active.

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

5. 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 Rule of Circularity.
(b) The K.I.S.S. Rule.
(c) The Jesus Factor.
(d) The Hippo Factor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

3. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?

4. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?

5. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?

(see the answer key)

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