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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. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Robert Benton.
(c) Frank Capra.
(d) Werner Herzog.

2. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?
(a) Constantin Stanislavski.
(b) Michael Chekhov.
(c) Georgi Tovstonogov.
(d) Andreas Tovstonogov.

3. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Entropy.
(c) Characterization.
(d) Back-story.

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

5. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?
(a) The dollycam.
(b) The digital camera.
(c) The steadycam.
(d) The zoomcam.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?

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

3. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

4. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?

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

(see the answer key)

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