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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, film schools are basically what?
(a) Useless.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Illuminating.
(d) Instructive.

2. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?
(a) The steadycam.
(b) The zoomcam.
(c) The digital camera.
(d) The dollycam.

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

4. What was the reason for the beginning of Oedipus Rex?
(a) Oedipus' mother dying.
(b) The onset of war.
(c) Oedipus' father dying.
(d) The plague.

5. What did Stanislavsky ask the steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?
(a) How he didn't get lost.
(b) How he steered the boat safely.
(c) How he kept from getting seasick.
(d) How he maintained a living.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the pig do in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?

2. What do you refer to when giving direction to the actor or the cameraman?

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

4. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?

5. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?

(see the answer key)

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