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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. How did Silvia Reinhardt feel about accompanying her husband Gottfried to the filming location for "The Red Badge of Courage"?
(a) She loved being on location.
(b) She missed her children at home, and said so.
(c) She enjoyed shopping in the town where the film was being shot.
(d) She did not know why she was there.

2. What does Schary tell Ross about Huston's powers of persuasion?
(a) He is angry and forceful, but effective at getting what he wants.
(b) He uses his wealth and influence to get what he wants.
(c) He is underhanded and dishonest when he wants something.
(d) He is creative, and he uses effective and dramatic arguments.

3. What picture did Huston film scenes for in the Central Park Zoo in 1969?
(a) "The Kremlin Letter."
(b) "Portnoy's Complaint."
(c) "My Friend Flippa."
(d) "Zoo Trip."

4. Which famous Civil War photographer does Huston repeatedly refer to when talking about shots for "The Red Badge of Courage"?
(a) Brady.
(b) Baxter.
(c) Bend.
(d) Bartley.

5. Where does Reinhardt live?
(a) Bel Air.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award does John Huston ask Lillian Ross to accept on his behalf in 1986?

2. Where was Gottfriend Reinhardt born?

3. Which of the following words does Huston take out of the script to appease the censors?

4. What is the name of Reinhardt's dog?

5. Who did Huston say was the greatest actor in the picture he directed in Rome in 1965?

Short Essay Questions

1. What hobby is Huston deeply interested in that has nothing to do with Hollywood, as Ross describes it in the first section of the book?

2. Who does Ross decide early on in writing Picture to make as her four leading "characters"?

3. What unusual tactic does Huston intend to use to direct the picture?

4. What does Huston's personal assistant, Albert Band, hope to do in the film?

5. How do the Reinhardts treat their dog, Mocha?

6. How does Audie Murphy behave during his first meeting with John Huston in the first section of the book?

7. What was one of the least expensive, but, in Huston's estimation, important shots of the film?

8. What does Reinhardt say about the perception of a director's and producer's roles in the success or failure of a movie?

9. Why does Reinhardt write a letter to Huston on the day the shooting of the film is to start?

10. What kind of a relationship did Ross have with John Huston later in their lives, as outlined by Huston's daughter Angelica Huston in the Foreword?

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