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

2. The newspaper reviewer criticized an author for attempting screenwriting because he was nearly what?
(a) Blind.
(b) Deaf.
(c) Paralyzed.
(d) Illiterate.

3. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Capra.

4. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that it is the __________ that makes the movie. What was he talking about?
(a) Actor.
(b) Plan.
(c) Director.
(d) Shot.

5. In what year did Mamet write the Preface of the book?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area did Mamet have greater experience in when writing the book?

2. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?

4. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?

5. Who said, "Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works"?

(see the answer key)

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