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

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

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Sophocles.

4. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?
(a) William of Occam.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Einstein.

5. What is the term which refers to the protagonist's immediate goal?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Superobjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Motivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

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

3. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?

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

5. All the audience cares about is the what, according to Mamet?

(see the answer key)

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