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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, if you persevere, then what method of thinking will become easier for you?
(a) Focused.
(b) Creative.
(c) Subconscious.
(d) Analytical.

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

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

7. What did Stanislavsky say is needed alone to support the text?
(a) Character.
(b) Narration.
(c) Action.
(d) Emotion.

8. According to Mamet in Chapter 5, why did Oedipus have to find out who his parents were?
(a) The curse.
(b) He didn't.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) The plague.

9. Mamet says in Chapter 6 that to "Understand your specific task, work until it's done, and then stop" is the same as what?
(a) The plot.
(b) The superobjective.
(c) The throughline.
(d) The focus.

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

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

12. 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) Sophocles.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) Aristotle.

13. Mamet compared the work of the film director to what, in Chapter 6?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Archery.
(c) Mountain climbing.
(d) Sculpting.

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

15. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, "It's always up to you whether you are going to tell a story through a ____ of shots or you are not."
(a) Series.
(b) Selection.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Variety.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says that the perfect movie doesn't have any what?

2. Mamet made the analogy in Chapter 4, "if the house is going to stand, the nail must do the work of ____."

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

4. 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?

5. The two essential elements of story, according to Aristotle, are surprise and what?

(see the answer keys)

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