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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, the "hope that God will intervene and save you" is what most people mean when they talk about what?
(a) Talent.
(b) Skill.
(c) Luck.
(d) Craft.

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 4, "If you don't know what you want, how can you know when _____?"
(a) To edit.
(b) To stop.
(c) To begin.
(d) You're done.

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

4. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?
(a) Create subdramas.
(b) Portray the idea of a movie.
(c) Show the ending in the scene.
(d) Portray a sense of character.

5. Which story of the farmer's did the class decide to go with in Chapter 5?
(a) Having no money.
(b) Getting money for food.
(c) Getting rid of danger.
(d) Saving the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. The two essential elements of story, according to Aristotle, are surprise and what?

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

3. What did the farmer do in Mamet's version of the ending in Chapter 5?

4. What does Mamet say that the people in Hollywood don't have, in Chapter 5?

5. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is the meaning of the beat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor did Mamet use to illustrate the work in pre-production, in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What suggestions did the students give for the motivation of the protagonist in Chapter 5's scenario?

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

(see the answer keys)

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