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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapater 6: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) MacDufflin.
(b) Objective.
(c) MacGriffin.
(d) MacGuffin.

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

3. How many films had David Mamet directed at the time that the book was written?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. Where did Mamet go to college?
(a) Maine.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 5, what is the perfect movie?
(a) Casablanca.
(b) Breakfast at Tiffany's.
(c) Dumbo.
(d) It's a Wonderful Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, you can't make it interesting once you get where?

2. What did Stanislavsky ask the steamboat captain, according to Mamet in Chapter 6?

3. Who wrote The Profession of the Stage?

4. When the farmer saw the man on the road, how did Mamet refer to this beat?

5. In ADR, what does D stand for?

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