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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. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the film business is caught in a spiral of degeneracy because it is run by people who have no what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Compass.
(c) Map.
(d) Craft.

2. What is the period after you've finished the shot list and before you go into shooting?
(a) Postproduction.
(b) Preproduction.
(c) Preptime.
(d) Designer Meetings.

3. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Stanislavski.

4. What is the rule which Mamet says means "Keep it simple, stupid"?
(a) Idiot rule.
(b) Film rule.
(c) Shooting rule.
(d) KISS rule.

5. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?
(a) Nails.
(b) Beams.
(c) Glue.
(d) Crossbars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

2. 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."

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

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

5. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?

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