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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 does Mamet say most modern art is based around?
(a) Political reasons.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Self-indulgence.
(d) Creativity.

2. The purpose of technique is to free the what?
(a) Conscious mind.
(b) Dream life.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Creativity.

3. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?
(a) Carves wood.
(b) Writes poetry.
(c) Sculpts.
(d) Paints.

4. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?
(a) A television show.
(b) A memoir.
(c) A novel.
(d) A play.

5. Mamet says that you cannot hide your what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Objective.
(b) Action.
(c) Outline.
(d) Structure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?

3. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?

4. What does Mamet say is a bad idea for the third beat in Chapter 2?

5. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?

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