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

2. Mamet says in Chapter 4 that a lot of the decisions you think are going to be arbitrary are arrived at through the what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Subconscious.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Consciousness.

3. 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."
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) American.
(d) Japanese.

4. Where did the farmer go in the town in the hypothetical film of Chapter 5?
(a) The slaughterhouse.
(b) The farmer's market.
(c) The seed store.
(d) The farm.

5. What actress did Mamet mention in the footnotes of Chapter 5 as an actress who could truly act?
(a) Susan Sarandon.
(b) Meryl Streep.
(c) Mary Astor.
(d) Donna Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Stanislavsky say is needed alone to support the text?

2. Mamet says that the greatest lesson in acting is to perform the physical motions of the script, how?

3. According to Mamet, what do actors talk about, which does not exist on the stage?

4. The two essential elements of story, according to Aristotle, are surprise and what?

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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