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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Truffaut an outstanding choice for interviewing Hitchcock?
(a) He was a former film critic and cinematic expert.
(b) He was a close friend of the director.
(c) He had a great deal of interviewing experience.
(d) He was not afraid to ask the hard questions.

3. What happens at the end of "The Secret Agent"?
(a) A woman is saved from a fire.
(b) The world goes to war.
(c) The hero is killed.
(d) The hero goes into hiding in northern England.

4. Hitchcock revealed that caption cards often didn't match a movie's dialogue due to which circumstance?
(a) The original dialogue was not translatable.
(b) The original dialogue was often too long.
(c) The original dialogue was often too racy for film.
(d) The original dialogue was bad.

5. Which famous figure inspired a scene in "The Man Who Knew Too Much"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Walt Disney.
(d) Winston Churchill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hitchcock describe himself as a child?

2. Who did Hitchcock say was the actual recipient of the Oscar?

3. Why did Hitchcock's father take him to the police station?

4. While traveling in Germany, what was Hitchcock's crew instructed to smuggle onto a train?

5. For Hitchcock, what was different about working on his first American film as compared to his British films?

Short Essay Questions

1. What old trick used by cameramen to hide the aging looks of actresses did Hitchcock explain?

2. In the 1920s, why would scripts often have to be changed, and how did Hitchcock feel about this?

3. How was Hitchcock's first American film received by the public and his peers?

4. What did Hitchcock say about movie endings?

5. After working in the title department at Paramount Famous Players-Lasky, what skill did Hitchcock begin to practice?

6. Why did Hitchcock go to America in 1937?

7. Why was the script for "The Man Who Knew Too Much" altered before filming?

8. What was the ending of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" based on?

9. In a short story, how did Hitchcock himself explain the term "MacGuffin"?

10. What did Hitchcock explain would happen if a film's plot was too complex?

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