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

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

3. Who said that the point is what happens to he hero, not what happens to the writer?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hemingway.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of camera has helped in injuring the cinema, according to Mamet?

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

4. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?

5. Chapter 1 deals with what element of the process of directing?

(see the answer key)

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