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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, in approaching the task of film, do we not have to do all at once, in Mamet's analogy in Chapter 6?
(a) Swim the ocean.
(b) Climb the whole mountain.
(c) Build the house in a day.
(d) Float a river.

2. What was the third beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2?
(a) Preparing.
(b) Respect.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Homage.

3. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?
(a) Dailies.
(b) Outtakes.
(c) Screenshots.
(d) Cuts.

4. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Stanislavski.
(d) Fitzgerald.

5. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Capra.
(c) Morrison.
(d) Eisenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamet say is a bad idea for the third beat in Chapter 2?

2. What does Mamet say that dramatic analysis is like in Chapter 6?

3. Where did Mamet go to college?

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. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

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