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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mamet says in Chapter 6 that any real what is going to be based on things within your control?
(a) Technique.
(b) Skill.
(c) Craft.
(d) Ability.

3. What was the reason for the beginning of Oedipus Rex?
(a) Oedipus' mother dying.
(b) Oedipus' father dying.
(c) The onset of war.
(d) The plague.

4. What does Mamet say "are all you have" in Chapter 6?
(a) The scene.
(b) The cuts.
(c) The shots.
(d) The actors.

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

6. Mamet says in Chapter 6 that you will have forsworn the Cult of what for a little while?
(a) Truth.
(b) Hope.
(c) Self.
(d) Creativity.

7. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?
(a) Education.
(b) Seriousness.
(c) Money.
(d) Souls.

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

9. According to Mamet, under conditions of great stress, you have to know your what?
(a) Craft.
(b) Shot.
(c) Trade.
(d) Camera.

10. According to Mamet, he's seen directors do how many takes of a shot?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Seventy.

11. What was in the pen in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) Food.
(b) No pig.
(c) Children.
(d) Piglets.

12. After how many takes does Mamet say you can no longer remember what the scene was about, in Chapter 4?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

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

14. The rule of circularity says not to do what?
(a) Repeat the objective.
(b) The same thing twice.
(c) Repeat the beginning.
(d) Repeat the narration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in approaching the task of film, do we not have to do all at once, in Mamet's analogy in Chapter 6?

2. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that a lot of the decisions you think are going to be arbitrary are arrived at through the what?

3. Oedipus is the model of all tragedy, according to whom?

4. What does Mamet say is the superobjective of the hero in Chapter 6?

5. Which chapter did Mamet recommend the students read in, A Practical Handbook for the Actor?

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