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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 was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) MacGriffin.
(b) MacGuffin.
(c) Objective.
(d) MacDufflin.

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

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

4. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?
(a) Fight back against you.
(b) Create roadblocks.
(c) Work with you.
(d) Create impediments.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?

3. In what year did Mamet write the Preface of the book?

4. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?

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

(see the answer key)

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