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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 is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Objective.
(c) Obstacle.
(d) Action.

2. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?
(a) To sell a pig.
(b) The students' respect.
(c) The teacher's respect.
(d) Money.

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Active.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Heroic.
(d) Narrating.

4. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is "the scene"?
(a) To sell a pig.
(b) To get a retraction.
(c) To eradicate danger.
(d) To get respect.

5. According to Mamet, the storyteller did NOT need something in Chapter 2. What was it?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Back-story.
(c) Entropy.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?

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

3. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?

4. What was in the pen in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?

5. What is Dumbo's problem, according to Mamet?

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