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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hitchcock revealed that caption cards often didn't match a movie's dialogue due to which circumstance?
(a) The original dialogue was bad.
(b) The original dialogue was often too long.
(c) The original dialogue was not translatable.
(d) The original dialogue was often too racy for film.

2. Over what span of time did the interview between Truffaut and Hitchcock take place?
(a) Twenty-four hour period.
(b) A month.
(c) Fifty hour period.
(d) Sixteen days.

3. What incident was the ending of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" based on?
(a) The Sidney Street Siege.
(b) The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster.
(c) The Easter Rising.
(d) The sinking of the Titanic.

4. What was originally to be the topic of Hitchcock's first American film?
(a) The sinking of the Titanic.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Hindenburg Disaster.
(d) The story of a serial killer.

5. What did Truffaut suggest the portrayal of police in Hitchcock's films, such as"Shadow of a Doubt" was influenced by?
(a) The anti-establishment sentiment of the 1940s.
(b) Hitchcock's fear of the police.
(c) Bad writing.
(d) Hitchcock's issues with authority figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which film actually became the first one Hitchcock filmed in America?

2. What was different about Hitchcock's first film in America?

3. Where is the concept of a MacGuffin said to have originated?

4. What were caption cards used for?

5. What did Hitchcock say does not make or break a movie?

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