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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mamet, under conditions of great stress, you have to know your what?
(a) Trade.
(b) Shot.
(c) Camera.
(d) Craft.

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, we would like to learn a technique of directing and analyzing as concrete as that of a what?
(a) Sculptor.
(b) Painter.
(c) Shoemaker.
(d) Scientist.

3. The purpose of rehearsal is to tell the actors, beat by beat, what?
(a) The objectives.
(b) The emotions needed.
(c) The actions called for.
(d) The characterization.

4. What does Mamet say "are all you have" in Chapter 6?
(a) The scene.
(b) The actors.
(c) The shots.
(d) The cuts.

5. What do you refer to when giving direction to the actor or the cameraman?
(a) The actor's focus.
(b) The objective of the scene.
(c) The interesting shot.
(d) The beat.

6. Mamet recommended the book A Practical Handbook for the Actor, written by whom?
(a) Bruder, Cohn, Olnek, et al.
(b) Bruder, Eisenstein.
(c) Meisner, Adler, et al.
(d) Mamet, Eisenstein, Olnek.

7. 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) Five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

8. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, you can't make it interesting once you get where?
(a) The blueprint board.
(b) The editing room.
(c) The storyboard room.
(d) The sound stage.

9. Mamet made the analogy in Chapter 4, "if the house is going to stand, the nail must do the work of ____."
(a) A hammer.
(b) A nail.
(c) A slat.
(d) A beam.

10. When the farmer saw the man on the road, how did Mamet refer to this beat?
(a) Gaining a foothold.
(b) Capitalizing on a golden opportunity.
(c) Selling the animal.
(d) Gaining respect.

11. What did the pig have around its neck in the hypothetical film from Chapter 5?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) A collar.
(c) A leash.
(d) A belt.

12. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, if you persevere, then what method of thinking will become easier for you?
(a) Subconscious.
(b) Analytical.
(c) Creative.
(d) Focused.

13. The study of what is very useful for directors, according to Mamet?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Photography.
(c) Myth.
(d) Science.

14. What does Mamet say is useless filler in film, and the giveaway to a joke's punch line, in Chapter 5?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Obstacle.
(c) Signposts.
(d) Drama.

15. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?
(a) Portray a sense of character.
(b) Show the ending in the scene.
(c) Create subdramas.
(d) Portray the idea of a movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual may become what?

2. What was the impetus for the beginning of Citizen Kane?

3. Which story of the farmer's did the class decide to go with in Chapter 5?

4. The only reason characters speak is what?

5. What does Mamet say that he defies anyone to act in Chapter 4?

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