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

2. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?
(a) Souls.
(b) Seriousness.
(c) Money.
(d) Education.

3. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that movies are made out of what?
(a) Very simple ideas.
(b) Elaborate stories.
(c) Heroic struggles.
(d) Epic dramas.

4. What did the farmer do in Mamet's version of the ending in Chapter 5?
(a) Bought a second pig.
(b) Sold the goat.
(c) Sold the pig.
(d) Bought feed for the pig.

5. What was the reason for the beginning of Oedipus Rex?
(a) The onset of war.
(b) The plague.
(c) Oedipus' father dying.
(d) Oedipus' mother dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says that the perfect movie doesn't have any what?

2. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?

3. What does David Mamet say that the answer to all of the tedious actor questions is?

4. According to Mamet, who told us that it's good to have tools that are simple to understand and a very limited number?

5. After how many takes does Mamet say you can no longer remember what the scene was about, in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mamet say to give yourself over to in directing, in Chapter 5?

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

4. What did Mamet write about the Navaho Indians in Chapter 6?

5. What did Mamet write in Chapter 4 of the director's instructions to the actor?

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

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

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

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

10. What decision did Mamet suggest is in the hands of the director, in Chapter 6?

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