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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mamet say is the ordering of unrelated events or ideas or images in favor of an overriding preconception?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Neurosis.

2. Where did Mamet go to college?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Maine.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."
(a) Established.
(b) Attained.
(c) Created.
(d) Manifested.

4. Mamet wrote, "Most _____ directors approach it by saying, 'let's follow the actors around,' as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did."
(a) Italian.
(b) American.
(c) French.
(d) Japanese.

5. All the audience cares about is the what, according to Mamet?
(a) Objective.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Thrust of the scene.
(d) Narration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Counterculture architecture was based on designing buildings based on what?

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "You tax the audience every time you don't move on to _______ of the progression as quickly as possible."

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

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

5. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?

(see the answer key)

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