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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oedipus is the model of all tragedy, according to whom?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sophocles.

2. What can you not rely on on to make the film more interesting, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?
(a) The director.
(b) The camera operator.
(c) The sound technician.
(d) The actors.

3. According to Mamet, most actors in film and stage today are what?
(a) Too edgy.
(b) Badly trained.
(c) Too self-absorbed.
(d) Well trained.

4. What actress did Mamet mention in the footnotes of Chapter 5 as an actress who could truly act?
(a) Meryl Streep.
(b) Mary Astor.
(c) Susan Sarandon.
(d) Donna Reed.

5. According to Mamet, who told us that it's good to have tools that are simple to understand and a very limited number?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Stoics.

6. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

7. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that a lot of the decisions you think are going to be arbitrary are arrived at through the what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Subconscious.

8. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that movies are made out of what?
(a) Epic dramas.
(b) Elaborate stories.
(c) Very simple ideas.
(d) Heroic struggles.

9. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, the "hope that God will intervene and save you" is what most people mean when they talk about what?
(a) Craft.
(b) Skill.
(c) Luck.
(d) Talent.

10. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, if you're ____ in the small things, you will be ____ in the large things.
(a) Certain.
(b) Correct.
(c) Exact.
(d) Careful.

11. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is the meaning of the beat?
(a) To gain respect.
(b) To prepare.
(c) To arrive early.
(d) To get a retraction.

12. What does Mamet say that dramatic analysis is like in Chapter 6?
(a) Critical thinking.
(b) Solving a math equation.
(c) Literary analysis.
(d) Plotting a compass course.

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

14. What did the farmer do in Mamet's version of the ending in Chapter 5?
(a) Bought a second pig.
(b) Bought feed for the pig.
(c) Sold the pig.
(d) Sold the goat.

15. Mamet says the reason we like those old-time movie stars so much is that they are what?
(a) Honest.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Elaborate.
(d) Simple.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only reason characters speak is what?

2. What does Mamet say is useless filler in film, and the giveaway to a joke's punch line, in Chapter 5?

3. What was the reason for the beginning of Oedipus Rex?

4. What did Stanislavsky ask the steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

5. What was the impetus for the beginning of Citizen Kane?

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