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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, most actors in film and stage today are what?
(a) Well trained.
(b) Too self-absorbed.
(c) Badly trained.
(d) Too edgy.

2. Mamet says of film directing and screenwriting that they are what?
(a) Controlling.
(b) Very different.
(c) Exact sciences.
(d) The same trade.

3. What actress did Mamet mention in the footnotes of Chapter 5 as an actress who could truly act?
(a) Susan Sarandon.
(b) Meryl Streep.
(c) Mary Astor.
(d) Donna Reed.

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

5. What is the book of pictures of shots of a film called?
(a) The prompt book.
(b) The storyboard.
(c) The set design.
(d) The book.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the farmer saw the man on the road, how did Mamet refer to this beat?

2. What was the man doing on the side of the road whom the farmer met in Chapter 5?

3. The only reason characters speak is what?

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

5. Who does Mamet say wove flaws into their blankets to let the devil out?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the appropriate response to the actor who asks "how do I walk down the hall", in the example in Chapter 4?

3. Who did the farmer meet in the hypothetical film in Chapter 5? How did this interaction play out?

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

5. What are modern film actors lacking in their education of storytelling, according to Mamet?

6. How did Mamet describe dealing with dialogue in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

10. What can the director not make up for in the editing room, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

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