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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 many scenes in total were there in the movie "The Red Badge of Courage" on the original shooting schedule?
(a) 347.
(b) 250.
(c) 830.
(d) 108.

2. Who was the leapfrog director on "The Red Badge of Courage"?
(a) James Jeffries.
(b) Andrew Morton.
(c) Robert Redford.
(d) Arthur Freed.

3. What does Huston demonstrate to Dierkes physically in the section titled "Everything Has Just Gone Zoom"?
(a) How to shoot a prop gun.
(b) How to cut a rope with a knife.
(c) How to mount a horse convincingly.
(d) How to make another actor let go of him as he falls.

4. Where was Gottfriend Reinhardt born?
(a) New York City.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Dublin.

5. Who is the main star of "The Red Badge of Courage"?
(a) John Huston.
(b) John Dietrick.
(c) Audie Murphy.
(d) Arthur Band.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie was released in 1987, shortly after Huston's death, that he directed?

2. About how much would feeding the cast and crew of the film lunch cost the studio during the filming?

3. What was Audie Murphy's weekly salary for "The Red Badge of Courage"?

4. Who is responsible for a picture's failure, according to Reinhardt?

5. What did Huston tell Audie Murphy the two would do once they got to Chico?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reinhardt insist upon during the film's production that is a somewhat unusual request so he can track the progress of filming closely?

2. 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?

3. How does Ross describe director John Huston in the section titled "Throw the Little Old Lady Down the Stairs"?

4. What kind of responsibility does Ross feel she has to the people she writes about, as outlined from an excerpt from her book Reporting in the Foreword?

5. What is Huston looking for in the local men who come to audition for the roles of extras?

6. Why does Dore Schary tell Ross he knows L.B. Mayer so well?

7. What does John Huston say to Ross when he calls her at home about a week before his death in 1987?

8. 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?

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

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

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