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

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, the task is always the same. Stick with it until you _____.
(a) Find an answer.
(b) Work it out with the crew.
(c) Solve it.
(d) Discover the scene's meaning.

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

4. The two essential elements of story, according to Aristotle, are surprise and what?
(a) Fate.
(b) Inevitability.
(c) Downfall.
(d) Tragedy.

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, if you're ____ in the small things, you will be ____ in the large things.
(a) Careful.
(b) Correct.
(c) Certain.
(d) Exact.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamet say that he defies anyone to act in Chapter 4?

2. Where was Stanislavsky having dinner with a steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

3. Which chapter did Mamet recommend the students read in, A Practical Handbook for the Actor?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, it isn't your job to make it what?

5. Everything in the old cartoons was based on what, according to Mamet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Mamet's reply to the question, "Is it possible to do everything "right" and still make a bad movie?"

2. In the hypothetical film from Chapters 3 and 4, what would Mamet suggest as direction to the protagonist?

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

4. How did Mamet relate film direction and screenwriting in Chapter 6?

5. What animated film did Mamet laud as perfect in Chapter 5?

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

7. What storytelling genres did Mamet suggest the director study in Chapter 5?

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

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

10. What does Mamet say regarding subconscious response in Chapter 4?

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