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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 directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Robert Benton.
(b) Werner Herzog.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Frank Capra.

2. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?
(a) Drama.
(b) Character.
(c) Narration.
(d) Exposition.

3. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?
(a) Inflected.
(b) Uninflected.
(c) Unattached.
(d) Articulate.

4. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?
(a) Work with you.
(b) Fight back against you.
(c) Create impediments.
(d) Create roadblocks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the third beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2?

2. What is the subheading of Chapter 4?

3. Mamet says in Chapter 3 that it is the nature of human perception to go to what?

4. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?

(see the answer key)

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