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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. Who did Mamet compare with Frank Capra in Chapter 3?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Brad Commers.
(c) David Lynch.
(d) Werner Herzog.

2. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is "the scene"?
(a) To get respect.
(b) To sell a pig.
(c) To eradicate danger.
(d) To get a retraction.

3. What does Mamet say most modern art is based around?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Self-indulgence.
(d) Political reasons.

4. According to Mamet, when the film is correctly ____, the subconscious and the conscious are in alignment.
(a) Designed.
(b) Arranged.
(c) Planned.
(d) Prepared.

5. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Frank Capra.
(b) Alfred Hitchcock.
(c) Herzog.
(d) Eisenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

2. Mamet says in Chapter 3 that it is the nature of human perception to go to what?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, if you want to build a roof, it might be a good idea to understand about the effects of what?

4. What unit does the director want to concern himself with?

5. According to Mamet, "In film or in the street, people who describe themselves to you are" what?

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