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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Direct.
(c) Honest.
(d) In the scene.

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

3. Oedipus is the model of all tragedy, according to whom?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Plato.

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

5. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is "the scene"?
(a) To get respect.
(b) To sell a pig.
(c) To eradicate danger.
(d) To get a retraction.

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

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

8. What, according to Mamet, is the answer to, "Where do we put the camera?"
(a) Here.
(b) Over there.
(c) On the floor.
(d) In an interesting angle.

9. Mamet says that the perfect movie doesn't have any what?
(a) Cuts.
(b) Characters.
(c) Scenes.
(d) Dialogue.

10. According to Mamet, what is one of the imperative questions to ask in the beginning of the hypothetical film in Chapter 5?
(a) When?
(b) Why now?
(c) Who?
(d) Why not?

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

12. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that a lot of the decisions you think are going to be arbitrary are arrived at through the what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Subconscious.
(d) Unconscious.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David Mamet say that the answer to all of the tedious actor questions is?

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, the Stoics would advise adhering to the metaphor which relates to what?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, it is the pursuit of what that is important?

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

5. 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?

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