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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Where Do You Put the Camera?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Bruno Eisenstein.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Werner Herzog.

2. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Narration.
(c) Character.
(d) Drama.

3. What is the main shot of any given scene?
(a) The principle.
(b) The main.
(c) The focus.
(d) The master.

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."
(a) Italian.
(b) Japanese.
(c) American.
(d) French.

5. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Circularity.
(c) Narration.
(d) Elaboration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said the following: when we have two theories, each of which adequately describes a phenomenon, always pick the simpler?

2. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?

4. What term means a filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style?

5. Mamet says that the house has to look like a house. The ______ doesn't have to look like a house.

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