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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Tasks of the Director.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After how many takes does Mamet say you can no longer remember what the scene was about, in Chapter 4?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

2. What is another term for "looping"?
(a) Editing.
(b) Steadicam.
(c) ADR.
(d) Voiceover.

3. Who did Mamet compare with Frank Capra in Chapter 3?
(a) Brad Commers.
(b) Alfred Hitchcock.
(c) David Lynch.
(d) Werner Herzog.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."
(a) Manifested.
(b) Attained.
(c) Established.
(d) Created.

5. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?

2. What, according to Mamet, is the answer to, "Where do we put the camera?"

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?

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

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, the only thing the dramatic form is good for is what?

(see the answer key)

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