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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was in the pen in the ending of the story in Chapter 5?
(a) Food.
(b) Children.
(c) Piglets.
(d) No pig.

2. The two essential elements of story, according to Aristotle, are surprise and what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Fate.
(c) Inevitability.
(d) Downfall.

3. What is the subheading of Chapter 4?
(a) What to Tell the Actors and Where to Put the Camera.
(b) Storytelling.
(c) Where Do You Put the Camera?
(d) Pig - The Movie.

4. Which story of the farmer's did the class decide to go with in Chapter 5?
(a) Having no money.
(b) Getting rid of danger.
(c) Saving the child.
(d) Getting money for food.

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

6. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, if you're ____ in the small things, you will be ____ in the large things.
(a) Correct.
(b) Certain.
(c) Careful.
(d) Exact.

7. What does Mamet say that he defies anyone to act in Chapter 4?
(a) Their motivation.
(b) Where they came from.
(c) Their height.
(d) Their obstacle.

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

9. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, the Stoics would advise adhering to the metaphor which relates to what?
(a) Selling a calf.
(b) Going on a journey.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Going into battle.

10. The only reason characters speak is what?
(a) To get what they want.
(b) To tell a story.
(c) To narrate.
(d) To express exposition.

11. According to Mamet, "In film or in the street, people who describe themselves to you are" what?
(a) Trying to get something.
(b) Playing a role.
(c) Lying.
(d) Being honest.

12. 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) Consciousness.
(d) Unconscious.

13. According to Mamet in Chapter 5, why did Oedipus have to find out who his parents were?
(a) He didn't.
(b) The plague.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) The curse.

14. What does Mamet say is the superobjective of the hero in Chapter 6?
(a) The buoy.
(b) The roadside.
(c) The channel.
(d) The river.

15. What is Dumbo's problem, according to Mamet?
(a) He lost his feather.
(b) He can't fly.
(c) He has low self-esteem.
(d) He has big ears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet says in Chapter 6 that you will have forsworn the Cult of what for a little while?

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?

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

4. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is the meaning of the beat?

5. Mamet says in Chapter 6 that to "Understand your specific task, work until it's done, and then stop" is the same as what?

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