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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does David Mamet say that the answer to all of the tedious actor questions is?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Look at the text.
(c) It doesn't matter.
(d) Based on the objective.

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

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

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

7. Mamet says that it's not the actor's job to be emotional. It's the actor's job to be what?
(a) In character.
(b) In the scene.
(c) Honest.
(d) Direct.

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

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

10. Where was Stanislavsky having dinner with a steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?
(a) The Thames River.
(b) The Indian Ocean.
(c) The Atlantic Ocean.
(d) The Volga River.

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

12. What can you not rely on on to make the film more interesting, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?
(a) The camera operator.
(b) The director.
(c) The sound technician.
(d) The actors.

13. 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) Climb the whole mountain.
(c) Swim the ocean.
(d) Build the house in a day.

14. What does Mamet say that he defies anyone to act in Chapter 4?
(a) Where they came from.
(b) Their height.
(c) Their obstacle.
(d) Their motivation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mamet says in Chapter 6 that you will have forsworn the Cult of what for a little while?

3. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that movies are made out of what?

4. What, according to Mamet, is the answer to, "Where do we put the camera?"

5. According to Mamet, "In film or in the street, people who describe themselves to you are" what?

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