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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Chapter 1: Storytelling.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Memories, Dream, Reflections?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Constantin Stanislavsky.

2. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?
(a) Inflected.
(b) Unattached.
(c) Uninflected.
(d) Articulate.

3. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?
(a) Dailies.
(b) Cuts.
(c) Outtakes.
(d) Screenshots.

4. The purpose of technique is to free the what?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Conscious mind.
(d) Dream life.

5. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?
(a) Narrate.
(b) Create characters.
(c) Flesh out stories.
(d) Cut.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

3. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that it is the __________ that makes the movie. What was he talking about?

4. Mamet says the audience requires not information, but what?

5. According to Mamet, storytellers need to be warned against falling into what?

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