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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hitchcock notorious for memorizing?
(a) Entire scripts.
(b) The names of everyone on set.
(c) Capital cities.
(d) Which films won which awards.

2. Who starred in Hitchcock's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?
(a) Ava Gardner.
(b) Doris Day.
(c) Janet Leigh.
(d) Carol Lombard.

3. Before Hitchcock, how were films typically shot?
(a) With a static camera.
(b) Sequentially, scene by scene.
(c) Only in indoor studios.
(d) With a team of directors.

4. Which of Hitchcock's personal rules did he break during "The Birds"?
(a) To never improvise while filming.
(b) To not make more than one film in a single year.
(c) To avoid friendships with the film's actors.
(d) Not to experiment technically while filming.

5. How many reels of "Rope" film had to be re-shot due to Hitchcock's problem with the ending?
(a) Six reels.
(b) One reel.
(c) Five reels.
(d) Three reels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hitchcock state that he practiced, "quite religiously"?

2. What kind of scene did "Psycho" start with?

3. What did Truffaut note that Hitchcock's films never started out as?

4. What was the producer of "Notorious" unfamiliar with, which eventually led to the film being made with another studio?

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

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