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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Truffaut say that many people assume suspense must be related to?
(a) Murder.
(b) Intimidation.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Fear.

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

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

4. What did Hitchcock say was the reason the police were portrayed as inept in some of his films?
(a) Bad casting.
(b) For humor.
(c) For the sake of creating a good story.
(d) They were based on real policemen he knew.

5. According to Hitchcock, what do Jesuits have a deep sense of?
(a) Brotherhood.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Moral fear.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along with "Shadow of a Doubt", what other film did Truffaut name as having inept police characters in the story?

2. Which film actually became the first one Hitchcock filmed in America?

3. What genre was Hitchcock's film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?

4. In "The Birds", who happened to be on the scene when a group of women began to discuss the birds?

5. Who wrote the novel on which Hitchcock's film "Thirty-Nine Steps" was based?

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