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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, film directors should all aspire to be what?
(a) Actors.
(b) Animators.
(c) Documentary film-makers.
(d) Play directors.

2. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Frank Capra.
(d) Herzog.

3. According to Mamet, he lived in a house that was how many years old at the time this book was written?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 10.
(d) 50.

4. A film is basically what, according to Mamet?
(a) A map.
(b) An art form.
(c) A design.
(d) A play.

5. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?
(a) The film.
(b) The shot.
(c) The scene.
(d) The beat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?

2. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?

3. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

4. What is the period after you've finished the shot list and before you go into shooting?

5. What term means a filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style?

(see the answer key)

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