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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) Objective.
(b) MacDufflin.
(c) MacGriffin.
(d) MacGuffin.

2. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?
(a) Drama.
(b) Narration.
(c) Character.
(d) Exposition.

3. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Herzog.
(d) Frank Capra.

4. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?
(a) The least interesting way.
(b) The most artistic way.
(c) The most frugal way.
(d) The most interesting way.

5. All the audience cares about is the what, according to Mamet?
(a) Objective.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Narration.
(d) Thrust of the scene.

6. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Narration.
(c) Structure.
(d) Storytelling.

7. In ADR, what does D stand for?
(a) Dictation.
(b) Density.
(c) Drive.
(d) Dialogue.

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

9. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?
(a) Create impediments.
(b) Fight back against you.
(c) Create roadblocks.
(d) Work with you.

10. Mamet's house was built without what?
(a) Metal.
(b) Nails.
(c) Wood.
(d) Brick.

11. Who wrote Memories, Dream, Reflections?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Constantin Stanislavsky.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim.

12. What is the period after you've finished the shot list and before you go into shooting?
(a) Designer Meetings.
(b) Preproduction.
(c) Postproduction.
(d) Preptime.

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

14. Mamet says in Chapter 3 that it is the nature of human perception to go to what?
(a) The protagonist.
(b) The MacGuffin.
(c) The most interesting thing.
(d) The back-story.

15. What does Mamet say most modern art is based around?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Political reasons.
(d) Self-indulgence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main shot of any given scene?

2. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?

3. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?

4. In what year did Mamet write the Preface of the book?

5. What is the term which refers to the protagonist's immediate goal?

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