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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. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Creative.
(b) Dionysian.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Scientific.

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

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

4. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Stanislavski.

5. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Capra.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet made the analogy in Chapter 4, "if the house is going to stand, the nail must do the work of ____."

2. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?

3. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

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

5. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?

(see the answer key)

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