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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. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Logic.
(c) Science.
(d) Narration.

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

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Active.
(c) Heroic.
(d) Narrating.

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

5. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?
(a) Acting.
(b) Screenwriting.
(c) Film criticism.
(d) Stage directing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?

2. According to Mamet, when the film is correctly ____, the subconscious and the conscious are in alignment.

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

4. In what year did Mamet write the Preface of the book?

5. Counterculture architecture was based on designing buildings based on what?

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