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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. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Dionysian.
(c) Creative.
(d) Scientific.

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

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

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

5. According to Mamet, what actor did he laud for his simplicity in a scene which involved the Nazis, in Chapter 4?
(a) Humphrey Bogart.
(b) James Stewart.
(c) Clifton Hayes.
(d) Carey Grant.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?

4. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

5. Mamet's house was built without what?

(see the answer key)

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