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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapater 6: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the film business is caught in a spiral of degeneracy because it is run by people who have no what?
(a) Craft.
(b) Compass.
(c) Structure.
(d) Map.

2. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?
(a) Nails.
(b) Glue.
(c) Crossbars.
(d) Beams.

3. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?
(a) Paints.
(b) Carves wood.
(c) Writes poetry.
(d) Sculpts.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, it is the pursuit of what that is important?
(a) Creativitiy.
(b) Truth.
(c) An ideal.
(d) Beauty.

5. Mamet's house was built without what?
(a) Nails.
(b) Metal.
(c) Wood.
(d) Brick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stanislavsky having dinner with a steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

2. Mamet wrote, "Most _____ directors approach it by saying, 'let's follow the actors around,' as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did."

3. Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual may become what?

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

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, you can't make it interesting once you get where?

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