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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 in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?
(a) Carey Grant.
(b) Donna Reed.
(c) James Stewart.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

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

3. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?
(a) Narration.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Logic.
(d) Science.

4. Whose method relies on a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast moves the story forward?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Capra.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Eisenstein.

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the only thing the dramatic form is good for is what?
(a) Political gain.
(b) Telling a story.
(c) Character creation.
(d) Artistic expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eisenstein claimed that the best image is a what image?

2. Who told Alice it didn't matter which road she took, as cited by Mamet in Chapter 2?

3. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?

4. What is another term for "looping"?

5. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?

(see the answer key)

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