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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The smallest unit is the shot; the largest unit is what?
(a) The beat.
(b) The ending.
(c) The scene.
(d) The film.

3. What is the term Mamet used for the protagonist's ultimate goal in the scene in Chapter 2?
(a) Motivation.
(b) Objective.
(c) Action.
(d) Superobjective.

4. The purpose of technique is to free the what?
(a) Dream life.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Conscious mind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?

2. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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