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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) Beauty.
(b) An ideal.
(c) Creativitiy.
(d) Truth.

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

3. What, in approaching the task of film, do we not have to do all at once, in Mamet's analogy in Chapter 6?
(a) Float a river.
(b) Swim the ocean.
(c) Build the house in a day.
(d) Climb the whole mountain.

4. In Chapter 5, the hypothetical film Mamet worked on with the students involved a farmer selling what?
(a) A chicken.
(b) A cow.
(c) A goat.
(d) A pig.

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

6. What is the book of pictures of shots of a film called?
(a) The prompt book.
(b) The set design.
(c) The book.
(d) The storyboard.

7. What is Dumbo's problem, according to Mamet?
(a) He lost his feather.
(b) He has low self-esteem.
(c) He can't fly.
(d) He has big ears.

8. Everything in the old cartoons was based on what, according to Mamet?
(a) Ink.
(b) Plot.
(c) Individual expression.
(d) Imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. The study of what is very useful for directors, according to Mamet?
(a) Science.
(b) Photography.
(c) Myth.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says the reason we like those old-time movie stars so much is that they are what?

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, you can't make it interesting once you get where?

3. According to Mamet, under conditions of great stress, you have to know your what?

4. The only reason characters speak is what?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 4, "If you don't know what you want, how can you know when _____?"

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