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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet says that if you are telling the story with pictures, the dialogue is the sprinkles on the what?
(a) Cake.
(b) Icing.
(c) Ice cream cone.
(d) Cupcake.

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

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

4. What does Mamet say is useless filler in film, and the giveaway to a joke's punch line, in Chapter 5?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Signposts.
(d) Drama.

5. What is the subheading of Chapter 4?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Pig - The Movie.
(c) Where Do You Put the Camera?
(d) What to Tell the Actors and Where to Put the Camera.

6. What do you refer to when giving direction to the actor or the cameraman?
(a) The beat.
(b) The interesting shot.
(c) The actor's focus.
(d) The objective of the scene.

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

8. Mamet says of film directing and screenwriting that they are what?
(a) The same trade.
(b) Controlling.
(c) Exact sciences.
(d) Very different.

9. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, it isn't your job to make it what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Creative.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Truthful.

10. Mamet says that the greatest lesson in acting is to perform the physical motions of the script, how?
(a) As exact as possible.
(b) As elaborately as possible.
(c) As simply as possible.
(d) As succinctly as possible.

11. Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual may become what?
(a) Honest.
(b) Exact.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) True.

12. Mamet says that the perfect movie doesn't have any what?
(a) Scenes.
(b) Characters.
(c) Cuts.
(d) Dialogue.

13. What did the pig do in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) Rode the girl on his back.
(b) Died.
(c) Attacked the farmer.
(d) Ran away.

14. The only reason characters speak is what?
(a) To tell a story.
(b) To narrate.
(c) To express exposition.
(d) To get what they want.

15. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, someone once asked whom if they had ever been lost?
(a) Daniel Boone.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the pig have around its neck in the hypothetical film from Chapter 5?

2. According to Mamet, what do actors talk about, which does not exist on the stage?

3. What was in the pen in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?

4. Mamet recommended the book A Practical Handbook for the Actor, written by whom?

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

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