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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Pig—The Movie.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet says that the house has to look like a house. The ______ doesn't have to look like a house.
(a) The window.
(b) Nail.
(c) The door.
(d) The steps.

2. According to Mamet, what is one of the imperative questions to ask in the beginning of the hypothetical film in Chapter 5?
(a) Who?
(b) When?
(c) Why now?
(d) Why not?

3. Who wrote Memories, Dream, Reflections?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Constantin Stanislavsky.
(d) Carl Jung.

4. After shooting which take do you not even remember why you were born?
(a) Tenth.
(b) Twentieth.
(c) Twelfth.
(d) Fifteenth.

5. In Chapter 2, Mamet says that it's impossible to make a character what?
(a) Narrate a story.
(b) Relatable to everyone.
(c) Carry a scene.
(d) Interesting in general.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example did Mamet use in Chapter 4 to demonstrate how you don't or do shoot a scene?

2. Mamet wrote, "Most _____ directors approach it by saying, 'let's follow the actors around,' as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did."

3. What actress did Mamet mention in the footnotes of Chapter 5 as an actress who could truly act?

4. The first beat in the hypothetical scene of Chapter 2 was to what?

5. Mamet says that if you are telling the story with pictures, the dialogue is the sprinkles on the what?

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