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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sometimes, Mamet says in Chapter 3, the piece (film) will do what?
(a) Fight back against you.
(b) Create roadblocks.
(c) Work with you.
(d) Create impediments.

2. All the audience cares about is the what, according to Mamet?
(a) Thrust of the scene.
(b) Objective.
(c) Narration.
(d) Protagonist.

3. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?
(a) The teacher's respect.
(b) The students' respect.
(c) To sell a pig.
(d) Money.

4. What is a progression toward the simplest, most ordered state, according to Mamet in Chapter 2?
(a) Streamlining.
(b) Delineation.
(c) Examination.
(d) Entropy.

5. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?
(a) Editing.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Signs.
(d) Narration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the third beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2?

2. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?

4. According to Mamet, you can't rely on the ________ to tell the story. Which of these is the correct answer?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mamet relate the "School of Countercultural Architecture" to film directing?

2. How did Mamet describe human nature in piecing together stories from film?

3. What is the backdrop of On Directing Film? From what setting did the author base the text?

4. What did Mamet write in Chapter 1 regarding character description and narration?

5. Describe the objective and beats in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2.

6. Describe Mamet's discussion of understanding precipitation in architecture in Chapter 3.

7. Describe the "School of Countercultural Architecture."

8. What did Mamet write in Chapter 3 regarding film with political agendas?

9. What does Mamet say in terms of withholding information from the audience, in Chapter 2?

10. What are the different approaches Mamet discussed as methods of storytelling in film, in Chapter 1?

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