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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Tasks of the Director.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet says that if you are telling the story with pictures, the dialogue is the sprinkles on the what?
(a) Cupcake.
(b) Icing.
(c) Cake.
(d) Ice cream cone.

2. Where did Mamet go to college?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Maine.
(d) Vermont.

3. What does Mamet say happens when the problem posited by the scene is over?
(a) The film is over.
(b) The scene is over.
(c) The objective is attained.
(d) The next scene begins.

4. Who did Mamet cite in saying that we needn't avoid things just because they're cliche?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Stanislavsky.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hemingway.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a progression toward the simplest, most ordered state, according to Mamet in Chapter 2?

3. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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