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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. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Narrating.
(b) Heroic.
(c) Interesting.
(d) Active.

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

3. What is the term which refers to the protagonist's immediate goal?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Objective.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Superobjective.

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

5. According to Mamet, film schools are basically what?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Instructive.
(c) Useless.
(d) Illuminating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?

2. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?

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

4. What does Mamet say is a bad idea for the third beat in Chapter 2?

5. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

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