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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 do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?
(a) Portray a sense of character.
(b) Show the ending in the scene.
(c) Portray the idea of a movie.
(d) Create subdramas.

2. Everything in the old cartoons was based on what, according to Mamet?
(a) Plot.
(b) Individual expression.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Ink.

3. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

4. What does David Mamet say that the answer to all of the tedious actor questions is?
(a) Quickly.
(b) It doesn't matter.
(c) Look at the text.
(d) Based on the objective.

5. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?
(a) A happy ending.
(b) Character.
(c) Plot.
(d) A tragic ending.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a progression toward the simplest, most ordered state, according to Mamet in Chapter 2?

2. What did the farmer do in Mamet's version of the ending in Chapter 5?

3. According to Mamet, you can't rely on the ________ to tell the story. Which of these is the correct answer?

4. In Chapter 5, the hypothetical film Mamet worked on with the students involved a farmer selling what?

5. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?

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