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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. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?
(a) Blind.
(b) Paralyzed.
(c) Illiterate.
(d) Deaf.

2. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?
(a) To pay homage.
(b) To gain respect.
(c) To prepare.
(d) To arrive early.

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

4. What does Mamet say is a bad idea for the third beat in Chapter 2?
(a) Gaining respect.
(b) Preparing.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Arriving early.

5. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?
(a) A tragic ending.
(b) Character.
(c) Plot.
(d) A happy ending.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says in Chapter 3 that it is the nature of human perception to go to what?

2. What does Mamet say happens when the problem posited by the scene is over?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?

4. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?

5. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?

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