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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mamet say is the ordering of unrelated events or ideas or images in favor of an overriding preconception?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Neurosis.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Articulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first way suggested by students in the class for shooting a scene of a bunch of people coming to class?

2. According to Mamet, he lived in a house that was how many years old at the time this book was written?

3. What is the term for the thing which stands in the way of the protagonist?

4. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, we would like to learn a technique of directing and analyzing as concrete as that of a what?

(see the answer key)

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