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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, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Circularity.
(b) Narration.
(c) Elaboration.
(d) Characterization.

2. Counterculture architecture was based on designing buildings based on what?
(a) The weather.
(b) The setting.
(c) The natural surroundings.
(d) How the architect felt.

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

4. The smallest unit is the shot; the largest unit is what?
(a) The scene.
(b) The beat.
(c) The ending.
(d) The film.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?

3. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?

4. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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