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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 142 - 171).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many scenes were shot on the first day of filming "The Red Badge of Courage"?
(a) 20.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 11.

2. What film does Reinhardt begin work on after "The Red Badge of Courage"?
(a) The Burning Secret.
(b) Mrs. Robinson.
(c) The Graduate.
(d) The Past Devolves.

3. What does Reinhardt think about how the scenes with the extras look?
(a) Reinhardt thinks the extras are too lacking in film experience.
(b) Reinhardt thinks they are doing magnificent work with 200 extras, when he would have preferred to have 2,000.
(c) Reinhardt thinks they have too many extras.
(d) Reinhardt thinks they need more extras to make it look convincing.

4. What does the M-G-M publicity person tell Ross about selling war pictures?
(a) It is hard to do.
(b) It is the easiest kind of film to sell.
(c) You can sell the war film if the hero is compelling enough.
(d) People are sick of war after living through WWII in real life.

5. What does Mrs. Schary suggest in place of the racial epithet "coon" for use in the film?
(a) Chipmunk.
(b) Possum.
(c) Skunk.
(d) Badger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reinhardt write to Schary to apologize for in the section titled "Everything Has Just Gone Zoom"?

2. Which restaurant does Ross go to with Huston in the section "Throw the Little Old Lady Down the Stairs!"?

3. What is increasingly bothering Reinhardt in the section titled "Everything Has Just Gone Zoom"?

4. Which of the following jobs did Schary once hold before getting into show business?

5. What does Schary say he thinks all music in the movies has to be to be effective?

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