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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the impetus for the beginning of Citizen Kane?
(a) The inheritance.
(b) The discovery of the sled.
(c) The plague.
(d) The death of Charles Foster Kane.

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

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, we would like to learn a technique of directing and analyzing as concrete as that of a what?
(a) Sculptor.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Painter.
(d) Shoemaker.

4. According to Mamet at the end of Chapter 5, "Anybody with a _____ can take a picture of a 'pig.'"
(a) Imagination.
(b) Steadicam.
(c) Camera.
(d) Brownie.

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) Sophocles.
(b) The Stoics.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) The Greeks.

6. What was the man doing on the side of the road whom the farmer met in Chapter 5?
(a) Fixing a wheel.
(b) Catching a pig.
(c) Catching a chicken.
(d) Cutting his lawn.

7. When the farmer saw the man on the road, how did Mamet refer to this beat?
(a) Capitalizing on a golden opportunity.
(b) Gaining a foothold.
(c) Gaining respect.
(d) Selling the animal.

8. 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) Donna Reed.
(d) Susan Sarandon.

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

10. What did the pig have around its neck in the hypothetical film from Chapter 5?
(a) A collar.
(b) A leash.
(c) A belt.
(d) A handkerchief.

11. According to Mamet, what actor did he laud for his simplicity in a scene which involved the Nazis, in Chapter 4?
(a) Clifton Hayes.
(b) James Stewart.
(c) Carey Grant.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

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

13. The two essential elements of story, according to Aristotle, are surprise and what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Downfall.
(c) Fate.
(d) Inevitability.

14. What did Stanislavsky ask the steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?
(a) How he didn't get lost.
(b) How he steered the boat safely.
(c) How he kept from getting seasick.
(d) How he maintained a living.

15. According to Mamet in Chapter 5, having two reasons for an act are the same as having how many reasons?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?

4. According to Mamet, most actors in film and stage today are what?

5. The rule of circularity says not to do what?

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