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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. What term means a filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style?
(a) Creator.
(b) Collaborator.
(c) Auteur.
(d) Artiste.

2. What does Mamet say that he defies anyone to act in Chapter 4?
(a) Where they came from.
(b) Their motivation.
(c) Their obstacle.
(d) Their height.

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

4. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?
(a) Screenshots.
(b) Dailies.
(c) Outtakes.
(d) Cuts.

5. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?
(a) Create subdramas.
(b) Show the ending in the scene.
(c) Portray the idea of a movie.
(d) Portray a sense of character.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?

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

3. Who directed Casablanca?

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

5. Mamet says that the perfect movie doesn't have any what?

(see the answer key)

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