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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Along with "Shadow of a Doubt", what other film did Truffaut name as having inept police characters in the story?
(a) Jamaica Inn.
(b) Sabotage.
(c) Notorious.
(d) Suspicion.

2. What did Truffaut do for a living when he and Hitchcock first met?
(a) He was a director.
(b) He was a photographer.
(c) He was a film critic.
(d) He was a model.

3. How did Hitchcock NOT make up for the wallet of studio money he lost while working on his directorial debut?
(a) He borrowed from the bank.
(b) He borrowed from the film's stars.
(c) He borrowed from the film's crew.
(d) He borrowed from his girlfriend.

4. What did the audience resent about Hitchcock's use of the young boy in his film, "The Woman Alone"?
(a) That he had a happy ending.
(b) That anything bad happened to him.
(c) That the role was played by an American, not a Brit.
(d) That the boy used bad language.

5. How old was Hitchcock when he wrote the adapted script for "Woman to Woman"?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty-three.
(d) Twenty-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Hitchcock, how were films typically shot?

2. Over what span of time did the interview between Truffaut and Hitchcock take place?

3. When Hitchcock began to pay more attention to scenarios than the plausibility of the plot, what was he able to focus on?

4. According to Hitchcock, what do Jesuits have a deep sense of?

5. According to Hitchcock, Jesuits would do anything to avoid what?

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