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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. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hemingway.

2. The only reason characters speak is what?
(a) To narrate.
(b) To tell a story.
(c) To get what they want.
(d) To express exposition.

3. What is the first way suggested by students in the class for shooting a scene of a bunch of people coming to class?
(a) From above.
(b) At head level.
(c) As a closeup.
(d) From below.

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

5. What is the term which means "it works correctly on paper but for some reason doesn't work when we get it on its feet"?
(a) The Hippo Factor.
(b) The Jesus Factor.
(c) The K.I.S.S. Rule.
(d) The Rule of Circularity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?

2. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

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

4. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?

5. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?

(see the answer key)

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