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

2. Which story of the farmer's did the class decide to go with in Chapter 5?
(a) Having no money.
(b) Saving the child.
(c) Getting money for food.
(d) Getting rid of danger.

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

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

5. In Chapter 5, the hypothetical film Mamet worked on with the students involved a farmer selling what?
(a) A pig.
(b) A goat.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, someone once asked whom if they had ever been lost?

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

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

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

5. The only reason characters speak is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor did Mamet use to illustrate the work in pre-production, in Chapter 6?

2. What did Mamet caution against with having multiple motivations for the farmer in Chapter 5?

3. How does Aristotle's theory of tragedy relate to the hypothetical film in Chapter 5?

4. What did Mamet suggest to the new director regarding animated films, in Chapter 5?

5. What analogy did Mamet give that involves Stanislavsky, in Chapter 6?

6. What is the hierarchy of film? Why did Mamet suggest the actor cannot be a fallback for the film in Chapter 6?

7. What is the Cult of Self which Mamet refers to in Chapter 6?

8. What example did Mamet give of Humphrey Bogart's simplicity, in Chapter 4?

9. How does the hypothetical film end in Chapter 5?

10. What does Mamet say regarding the training of film actors in today's world?

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