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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mamet, what was his response to "lovely enthusiasts who will aver that the purpose of modern art is not to be liked"?
(a) "Get a life."
(b) "Let's get it over with."
(c) "Learn a craft."
(d) "Oh, grow up."

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the film business is caught in a spiral of degeneracy because it is run by people who have no what?
(a) Map.
(b) Compass.
(c) Craft.
(d) Structure.

3. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?
(a) Humphrey Bogart.
(b) Carey Grant.
(c) James Stewart.
(d) Donna Reed.

5. The purpose of technique is to free the what?
(a) Dream life.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Conscious mind.
(d) Creativity.

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

7. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Unattached.
(c) Uninflected.
(d) Inflected.

8. Counterculture architecture was based on designing buildings based on what?
(a) The weather.
(b) The setting.
(c) The natural surroundings.
(d) How the architect felt.

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

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

11. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?
(a) A memoir.
(b) A novel.
(c) A play.
(d) A television show.

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

13. What does Mamet say is a bad idea for the third beat in Chapter 2?
(a) Gaining respect.
(b) Waiting.
(c) Preparing.
(d) Arriving early.

14. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."
(a) Created.
(b) Manifested.
(c) Attained.
(d) Established.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Anytime anyone does what, "that's a counterforce"?

2. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?

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

4. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

5. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

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