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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hitchcock approach romance in a film?
(a) With discomfort and embarrassment.
(b) As he would an action scene.
(c) Just as any other dramatic mood.
(d) As he would a dance scene.

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

3. In "The Birds", who happened to be on the scene when a group of women began to discuss the birds?
(a) An ornithologist.
(b) A paleozoologist.
(c) An apiologist.
(d) A nematologist.

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

5. What happened to the little boy in Hitchcock's film, "The Woman Alone"?
(a) He died.
(b) He killed another boy.
(c) He saved a lost camper.
(d) He ran away from home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hitchcock say must be done about the MacGuffin so that the story was not ruined?

2. What did Hitchcock regret about "The Wrong Man"?

3. Which of Hitchcock's personal rules did he break during "The Birds"?

4. What did Hitchcock insist that all people have at least some tendency for?

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

(see the answer key)

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