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

2. Mamet says the reason we like those old-time movie stars so much is that they are what?
(a) Simple.
(b) Elaborate.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Honest.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, you can't make it interesting once you get where?

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

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

4. What does Mamet say "are all you have" in Chapter 6?

5. What did the pig do in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What has the hypothetical film evolved to in terms of danger in Chapter 5?

4. What scenario did Mamet present for the hypothetical film in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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

9. What was Mamet's response to "performance art" questions which arise in shooting?

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

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