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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?
(a) Money.
(b) Souls.
(c) Education.
(d) Seriousness.

2. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?
(a) Uninflected.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Unattached.
(d) Inflected.

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

4. After shooting which take do you not even remember why you were born?
(a) Fifteenth.
(b) Twelfth.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Tenth.

5. What is the term which refers to the protagonist's immediate goal?
(a) Motivation.
(b) Objective.
(c) Obstacle.
(d) Superobjective.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 5, what is the perfect movie?

2. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

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

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, "It's always up to you whether you are going to tell a story through a ____ of shots or you are not."

5. Mamet made the analogy in Chapter 4, "if the house is going to stand, the nail must do the work of ____."

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