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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Tasks of the Director.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?
(a) Narration.
(b) Structure.
(c) Characterization.
(d) Storytelling.

2. What are after-the-fact attempts to shore up that which was not correctly designed in a film?
(a) Narration.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Signs.
(d) Editing.

3. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) Werner Herzog.
(d) Robert Benton.

4. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?
(a) Sculpts.
(b) Paints.
(c) Writes poetry.
(d) Carves wood.

5. Mamet made the analogy in Chapter 4, "if the house is going to stand, the nail must do the work of ____."
(a) A hammer.
(b) A nail.
(c) A slat.
(d) A beam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term Mamet used for the protagonist's ultimate goal in the scene in Chapter 2?

2. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?

3. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?

4. Mamet wrote, "Most _____ directors approach it by saying, 'let's follow the actors around,' as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did."

5. According to Mamet, most actors in film and stage today are what?

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