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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Mamet, is the answer to, "Where do we put the camera?"

2. What example did Mamet use in Chapter 4 to demonstrate how you don't or do shoot a scene?

3. Oedipus is the model of all tragedy, according to whom?

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

5. What did Stanislavsky ask the steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the hypothetical film end in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What tasks does the director face in pre-production for a film? How does this prepare him/her for shooting?

Essay Topic 2

Who was William of Occam, and what was Occam's Razor? How does this apply to film and dramatic analysis?

Essay Topic 3

What authors did Mamet quote in the book with regard to cutting extraneous text in a screenplay? What theorists did he speak about in dramatic analysis?

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