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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 does Reinhardt think about how the scenes with the extras look?
(a) Reinhardt thinks they have too many extras.
(b) Reinhardt thinks the extras are too lacking in film experience.
(c) Reinhardt thinks they need more extras to make it look convincing.
(d) Reinhardt thinks they are doing magnificent work with 200 extras, when he would have preferred to have 2,000.

2. What is Schary's new desk lamp made in the figure of in the section titled "What's Wrong With Mocha's Opinion?"?
(a) A lantern.
(b) A sword.
(c) A fish.
(d) A Viking.

3. What does Reinhardt tell Huston Mayer asked him about the film in the section titled "Piccolos Under Your Name, Strings Under Mine"?
(a) Whether the film was over budget.
(b) Whether the film had good acting.
(c) Whether the film had a story.
(d) Whether the film had been fun to make.

4. What does Schary say he thinks all music in the movies has to be to be effective?
(a) Overbearing.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Soft.
(d) Loud.

5. Who is Humphrey Bogart married to at the time he begins work on "The African Queen" with Huston?
(a) Greta Garbo.
(b) Lauren Bacall.
(c) Heddy Lamar.
(d) Katherine Hepburn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the most important shots of the film, according to Huston?

2. What does Mrs. Schary suggest in place of the racial epithet "coon" for use in the film?

3. What does Schary suggest about the film's music in the section titled "What's Wrong With Mocha's Opinion?"?

4. What does Huston often do in pictures he directs?

5. What part of making art does Schary say is important?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, what does Dore Schary tell Reinhardt about his opinion on the progress of the picture and on Audie Murphy's performance particularly?

2. What is the purpose of the so-called "leapfrog" method of directing and shooting a film?

3. Who does Silvia Reinhardt tell her husband wanted to come to the preview but that she has left at home?

4. What does Reinhardt tell Ross about his relationship with Margaret Booth?

5. Why does Arthur Freed tell Ross that Huston's pictures have trouble selling to audiences?

6. What does Reinhardt suggest altering in the film, with Huston's blessing, to make it more appealing to audiences after the first preview?

7. In Part III, what does Reinhardt implore the top crew members, including Huston, to do for him that would make the studio executives very happy?

8. What does Reinhardt tell Huston about doing the retakes for "The Red Badge of Courage" in the beginning of Part IV?

9. What does Schary tell Ross about the effects of pressures and constraints on the artistic endeavors of film-makers?

10. Why is Margaret Booth's positive opinion so welcome and important to Huston?

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