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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 is another term for "looping"?
(a) Steadicam.
(b) Editing.
(c) ADR.
(d) Voiceover.

2. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Characterization.
(c) Narration.
(d) Structure.

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?
(a) James Stewart.
(b) Carey Grant.
(c) Humphrey Bogart.
(d) Donna Reed.

4. According to Mamet, it is essential to cut that which has what to us?
(a) Explanation.
(b) Narration.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Deep personal meaning.

5. 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) Manifested.
(b) Attained.
(c) Established.
(d) Created.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?

2. What is the main shot of any given scene?

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

4. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

5. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?

(see the answer key)

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