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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) Mary Astor.
(b) Donna Reed.
(c) Susan Sarandon.
(d) Meryl Streep.

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?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Subconscious.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Unconscious.

3. Mamet recommended the book A Practical Handbook for the Actor, written by whom?
(a) Bruder, Eisenstein.
(b) Mamet, Eisenstein, Olnek.
(c) Meisner, Adler, et al.
(d) Bruder, Cohn, Olnek, et al.

4. Where did the farmer go in the town in the hypothetical film of Chapter 5?
(a) The seed store.
(b) The farm.
(c) The farmer's market.
(d) The slaughterhouse.

5. What was the last beat about in the hypothetical film in Chapter 5?
(a) A man rewards a good deed.
(b) A man sells a goat.
(c) A man saves the day.
(d) A man sells a pig.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that movies are made out of what?

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

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 4, "If you don't know what you want, how can you know when _____?"

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Mamet suggest directors should strive for in terms of film dialogue in movies, in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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