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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Everything in the old cartoons was based on what, according to Mamet?
(a) Individual expression.
(b) Ink.
(c) Plot.
(d) Imagination.

2. Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual may become what?
(a) Exact.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) True.
(d) Honest.

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

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, it isn't your job to make it what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Pretty.
(c) Creative.
(d) Truthful.

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

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

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

8. 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) Shoemaker.
(b) Painter.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Scientist.

9. The rule of circularity says not to do what?
(a) Repeat the narration.
(b) Repeat the beginning.
(c) Repeat the objective.
(d) The same thing twice.

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

11. According to Mamet in Chapter 4, "If you don't know what you want, how can you know when _____?"
(a) To edit.
(b) To begin.
(c) You're done.
(d) To stop.

12. What was the reason for the beginning of Oedipus Rex?
(a) Oedipus' mother dying.
(b) The plague.
(c) The onset of war.
(d) Oedipus' father dying.

13. Mamet says that when he was young, actors spent how many years on stage earning a living by the time they were thirty?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eight.
(d) Fifteen.

14. According to Mamet in Chapter 6, it is the pursuit of what that is important?
(a) An ideal.
(b) Truth.
(c) Creativitiy.
(d) Beauty.

15. Using the example the class previously created, in Chapter 4, what is the meaning of the beat?
(a) To gain respect.
(b) To prepare.
(c) To arrive early.
(d) To get a retraction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David Mamet say that the answer to all of the tedious actor questions is?

2. According to Mamet, "In film or in the street, people who describe themselves to you are" what?

3. Mamet compared the work of the film director to what, in Chapter 6?

4. What do actors erroneously try to use their intellectuality to do?

5. According to Mamet, under conditions of great stress, you have to know your what?

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