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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. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?
(a) Directors.
(b) Actors.
(c) Cinematographers.
(d) Studio executives.

2. What is a progression toward the simplest, most ordered state, according to Mamet in Chapter 2?
(a) Entropy.
(b) Examination.
(c) Streamlining.
(d) Delineation.

3. Where was Mamet teaching in the fall of 1987?
(a) NYU.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

4. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?
(a) The most artistic way.
(b) The least interesting way.
(c) The most frugal way.
(d) The most interesting way.

5. In the scenario in Chapter 2, how early did the protagonist arrive to the class?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?

2. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?

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

4. What is the rule which Mamet says means "Keep it simple, stupid"?

5. According to Mamet, the director is seen as what kind of extension of the screenwriter?

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