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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 logical construct did Mamet use to explain the system of film-making in Chapter 3?
(a) A plus B is C.
(b) If A, then B.
(c) If A, then C.
(d) N plus R is P.

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

3. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Bruno Eisenstein.
(c) Werner Herzog.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim.

4. Who did Mamet compare with Frank Capra in Chapter 3?
(a) David Lynch.
(b) Brad Commers.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Werner Herzog.

5. Mamet says that the greatest lesson in acting is to perform the physical motions of the script, how?
(a) As elaborately as possible.
(b) As succinctly as possible.
(c) As simply as possible.
(d) As exact as possible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The study of what is very useful for directors, according to Mamet?

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?

4. Who directed Casablanca?

5. Mamet says the reason we like those old-time movie stars so much is that they are what?

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