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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Dionysian.
(b) Creative.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Scientific.

4. What is the main shot of any given scene?
(a) The main.
(b) The principle.
(c) The master.
(d) The focus.

5. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that it is the __________ that makes the movie. What was he talking about?
(a) Plan.
(b) Shot.
(c) Actor.
(d) Director.

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

7. According to Mamet, he lived in a house that was how many years old at the time this book was written?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

8. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, if you want to build a roof, it might be a good idea to understand about the effects of what?
(a) Weather.
(b) Support beams.
(c) Precipitation.
(d) Sunlight.

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

10. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Narration.
(c) Elaboration.
(d) Circularity.

11. What term means a filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style?
(a) Artiste.
(b) Auteur.
(c) Collaborator.
(d) Creator.

12. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?
(a) Shots.
(b) Narration.
(c) Character.
(d) Cuts.

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

14. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Bruno Eisenstein.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Werner Herzog.

15. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?
(a) William of Occam.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

2. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?

3. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?

4. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?

5. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?

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