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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were leading ladies required to do for the cameramen's age-hiding technique to work?
(a) Keep their heads tilted upward.
(b) Hold a reflecting mirror.
(c) Stay perfectly still.
(d) Move their heads back and forth.

2. What was the focus of "Spellbound"?
(a) Hypnotism.
(b) Genetic mutation.
(c) Brainwashing.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

3. How did Hitchcock shoot "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?
(a) As it was written.
(b) With a very small production budget.
(c) With a great amount of improvisation.
(d) On location in Italy.

4. What is the Shuftan Process?
(a) A technique using mirrors to reflect a picture in front of the camera.
(b) A technique that makes objects appear farther than they are from the camera.
(c) A technique in which the actors may appear to have doubled.
(d) A technique that creates short spurts of light resembling lightning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technical innovation was used for the first time on "Rope"?

2. Why did Hitchcock refuse to hire the quiet man as his assistant?

3. Who was Hitchcock's assistant after he became a director?

4. What was originally to be the topic of Hitchcock's first American film?

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

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