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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Pig—The Movie.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is the meaning of the beat?
(a) To prepare.
(b) To get a retraction.
(c) To gain respect.
(d) To arrive early.

2. What does Mamet say is useless filler in film, and the giveaway to a joke's punch line, in Chapter 5?
(a) Drama.
(b) Signposts.
(c) Obstacle.
(d) Exposition.

3. What example did Mamet use in Chapter 4 to demonstrate how you don't or do shoot a scene?
(a) A pig farmer.
(b) A cartoon.
(c) A documentary.
(d) A car crash.

4. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Columbia.
(c) NYU.
(d) Yale.

5. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?
(a) Illiterate.
(b) Paralyzed.
(c) Blind.
(d) Deaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subheading of Chapter 4?

2. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?

3. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?

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

5. Which story of the farmer's did the class decide to go with in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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