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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 172 - 219).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company's stock is Dore Schary's new contract with M-G-M supplemented with in the section titled "Piccolos Under Your Name, Strings Under Mine"?
(a) Amazon's.
(b) Purdue's.
(c) Universal's.
(d) Loew's.

2. What scene does Schary suggest taking out altogether in the section titled "What's Wrong with Mocha's Opinion?"?
(a) The Youth's Death Scene.
(b) The river-crossing scene.
(c) The marching scene where the veterans laugh at the young soldiers.
(d) The Tattered Man's death scene.

3. Which scene did Willie Wyler tell Huston was the most amazing scene he ever watched?
(a) The Youth's death scene.
(b) The Tattered Man's death scene.
(c) The opening battle scene in The Red Badge of Courage.
(d) The river crossing scene.

4. What does Huston do continuously during the casting of the film's extras?
(a) Click his lighter.
(b) Sketch.
(c) Eat sandwiches.
(d) Gaze out the window.

5. What part of making art does Schary say is important?
(a) The discipline.
(b) The collaboration.
(c) The motivation.
(d) The uncertainty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Huston first move to New York?

3. Who is Huston's friend that he met at the race track and then cast as an extra?

4. How many scenes were shot on the first day of filming "The Red Badge of Courage"?

5. Which restaurant does Ross go to with Dore Schary and others in the section "Throw The Little Old Lady Down the Stairs!"?

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