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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mamet made the analogy in Chapter 4, "if the house is going to stand, the nail must do the work of ____."
(a) A nail.
(b) A beam.
(c) A slat.
(d) A hammer.

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

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

5. 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.

6. What was in the pen in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) No pig.
(b) Children.
(c) Piglets.
(d) Food.

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

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

9. 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) Painter.
(b) Shoemaker.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Scientist.

10. 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) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

11. What did the pig do in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) Ran away.
(b) Rode the girl on his back.
(c) Died.
(d) Attacked the farmer.

12. What, in Mamet's analogy in Chapter 6, are the marker buoys?
(a) The superobjective.
(b) Small objectives.
(c) The character.
(d) The plot.

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

14. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, you can't make it interesting once you get where?
(a) The storyboard room.
(b) The sound stage.
(c) The editing room.
(d) The blueprint board.

15. What was the steamboat captain's answer to Stanislavsky, in Chapter 6?
(a) "I stick to the channel; it's marked."
(b) "I have a sounding beacon."
(c) "I drink a lot of water."
(d) "I use a map."

Short Answer Questions

1. The reply from the person who was asked if they were ever lost was that they were once bewildered for how many days?

2. What is Dumbo's problem, according to Mamet?

3. What can you not rely on on to make the film more interesting, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

4. What did Stanislavsky say is needed alone to support the text?

5. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is "the scene"?

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