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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. The purpose of rehearsal is to tell the actors, beat by beat, what?
(a) The characterization.
(b) The objectives.
(c) The emotions needed.
(d) The actions called for.

2. What do you refer to when giving direction to the actor or the cameraman?
(a) The beat.
(b) The actor's focus.
(c) The objective of the scene.
(d) The interesting shot.

3. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Elaboration.
(c) Narration.
(d) Circularity.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?
(a) James Stewart.
(b) Donna Reed.
(c) Carey Grant.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

5. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Objective.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?

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

3. What logical construct did Mamet use to explain the system of film-making in Chapter 3?

4. What example did Mamet use in Chapter 4 to demonstrate how you don't or do shoot a scene?

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

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