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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mamet, he lived in a house that was how many years old at the time this book was written?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

2. The purpose of technique is to free the what?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Dream life.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Conscious mind.

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

4. Who directed the film Places in the Heart?
(a) Werner Herzog.
(b) Robert Benton.
(c) Frank Capra.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

5. A good writer only gets better by learning to do what, according to Mamet?
(a) Cut.
(b) Flesh out stories.
(c) Narrate.
(d) Create characters.

6. According to Mamet, it is essential to cut that which has what to us?
(a) Narration.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Explanation.
(d) Deep personal meaning.

7. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim.
(c) Bruno Eisenstein.
(d) Werner Herzog.

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

9. What craft did Mamet say he does sometimes in Chapter 3?
(a) Writes poetry.
(b) Paints.
(c) Carves wood.
(d) Sculpts.

10. In the scene generated for the class in Chapter 2, what did the protagonist want?
(a) Money.
(b) The students' respect.
(c) To sell a pig.
(d) The teacher's respect.

11. 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) Established.
(b) Created.
(c) Attained.
(d) Manifested.

12. Mamet says in Chapter 1 that if the film follows the protagonist around, what he does had better be what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Narrating.
(c) Heroic.
(d) Active.

13. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?
(a) Character.
(b) Shots.
(c) Narration.
(d) Cuts.

14. The first beat in the hypothetical scene of Chapter 2 was to what?
(a) To pay homage.
(b) To prepare.
(c) To gain respect.
(d) To arrive early.

15. Chair makers, until the turn of the century, made their chairs without what?
(a) Glue.
(b) Nails.
(c) Crossbars.
(d) Beams.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, most movie scripts are written for an audience of what?

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

3. According to Mamet, when the film is correctly ____, the subconscious and the conscious are in alignment.

4. What does Mamet say most modern art is based around?

5. What is the rule which Mamet says means "Keep it simple, stupid"?

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