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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. What is the term Mamet used for the protagonist's ultimate goal in the scene in Chapter 2?
(a) Motivation.
(b) Objective.
(c) Superobjective.
(d) Action.

2. What did Stanislavsky say is needed alone to support the text?
(a) Character.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Action.
(d) Narration.

3. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?
(a) Narrate a story.
(b) Carry a scene.
(c) Relatable to everyone.
(d) Interesting in general.

4. What does Mamet say happens when the problem posited by the scene is over?
(a) The next scene begins.
(b) The scene is over.
(c) The film is over.
(d) The objective is attained.

5. Who characterized the notion of "judge of yourself"?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Herzog.
(d) Stanislavsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?

2. After shooting which take do you not even remember why you were born?

3. What did the pig have around its neck in the hypothetical film from Chapter 5?

4. The purpose of rehearsal is to tell the actors, beat by beat, what?

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

(see the answer key)

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