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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 does Mamet say is the ordering of unrelated events or ideas or images in favor of an overriding preconception?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Apathy.

2. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) MacGriffin.
(b) Objective.
(c) MacDufflin.
(d) MacGuffin.

3. Who wrote Memories, Dream, Reflections?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Constantin Stanislavsky.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim.

4. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?
(a) Character.
(b) Narration.
(c) Cuts.
(d) Shots.

5. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. A film is basically what, according to Mamet?

2. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?

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

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the film business is caught in a spiral of degeneracy because it is run by people who have no what?

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

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