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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. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?
(a) The zoomcam.
(b) The dollycam.
(c) The steadycam.
(d) The digital camera.

2. According to Mamet, film directors should all aspire to be what?
(a) Documentary film-makers.
(b) Actors.
(c) Animators.
(d) Play directors.

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

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

5. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?
(a) Dionysian.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Creative.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?

2. What is the term for the screening of the day's shots?

3. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

4. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?

5. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?

(see the answer key)

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