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film history quiz 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What act does Zampano perform for his audiences in La Strada? | Strongman |
| Gelsomina, in La Strada, has a strong affiliation to what/who? | Children |
| When Gelsomina is abandoned over night in the town square in La Strada, what/who wanders past her in the night? | A riderless, lone horse |
| What is the first trick Gelsomina sees Il Matto perform on the tightrope in La Strada? | Eating spaghetti |
| What does Il Matto continually call Zampano in La Strada? | An animal |
| What souvenir does Il Matto give to Gelsomina in La Strada? | A necklace |
| What instrument does Gelsomina finally learn to play in La Strada? | Trumpet |
| At the end of La Strada what reminds Zampano of Gelsomina (and his guilt)? | The song she loved so much |
| Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries is a film about who? | An elderly professor |
| What is significant about the clock and the man's watch in the dream sequence from Wild Strawberries? | They have no hands |
| What does our protagonist see in the coffin in the clip from Wild Strawberries? | Himself--attempting to pull him in |
| What happens to the 'faceless' man our protagonist encounters on the street in the clip from Wild Strawberries? | He falls to the floor and blood pours from him |
| Amarcord is a mixture of autobiography and a mockery of whose political regime? | Mussolini |
| The historian in the first clip from Amarcord appears on screen pushing a what? | Bicycle |
| The second clip from Amarcord is a collection of what? | Examples of teaching |
| What language is the young boy having difficulties mastering at the end of the second clip from Amarcord? | Greek |
| How many versions of the murder story do we get to see/hear in Rashomon? | Four |
| What is significant about the way each witness in Rashomon presents their story when on-screen? | They speak directly to the camera |
| The opening of Rashomon takes place beneath the ruined Rashomon gate in a rain storm. There is a commoner, a woodcutter and who else? | A priest |
| Who tells the samurai's story in Rashomon? | It is told by the samurai through a medium |
| After all the stories have been told in Rashomon, what do those at the gate find? | A baby |
| In the bandit's story in Rashomon, what influences his decision to attack the samurai and his wife? | Desire for the wife |
| Rashomon is a film that relies on the use of natural lighting. What natural element helps to create the interesting shadows in the re-enactments of the murder? | Leaves |
| The narrative/aesthetic style of Pather Panchali can best be described as what? | Realist |
| Durga, the young girl in Pather Panchali, is always stealing fruit from her neighbor's yard. What else is she accused of stealing? | A bead necklace |
| Who does Durga mainly steal the fruit for in Pather Panchali? | Her aged aunt |
| What does the mother often accuse her aged sister-in-law of doing in Pather Panchali? | Stealing food from her pantry |
| The scene in Pather Panchali made up of close-up reaction shots of the boy, Apu and the Aunt, Indir occurs when Durga is being dragged by the hair - by who? | Her mother |
| When Durga and Apu venture beynd their small village in Pather Panchali what do they get to see? | A train |
| What activity brings on Durga's deathly fever in Pather Panchali? | Playing in the monsoon rain |
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