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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the character at the center of the story in "The Red Badge of Courage"?

2. Who is Angelica Huston's husband?

3. Who writes the foreward to Picture?

4. What was the title of the last "Talk of the Town" piece Ross wrote for The New Yorker about Huston?

5. Where does Reinhardt live?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the pre-filming rehearsals drag on, what is the mood and atmosphere among the cast and crew?

2. How do Huston and Reinhardt seem to view the impending start to their filming of "The Red Badge of Courage" in the week before rehearsals begin?

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

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

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

6. Why does Reinhardt feel that it is so important that "The Red Badge of Courage" is a great picture?

7. What does Huston regret making a mistake on during the filming in the second section of the book?

8. What is L.B. Mayer's strongest objection to the M-G-M studio making "The Red Badge of Courage"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ross thoroughly examines John Huston from both a personal and professional point of view. Drawing on Ross's own descriptions and impressions of Huston, write an essay analyzing why making a film adaptation of Crane's classic novel The Red Badge of Courage was so important an endeavor for the director.

Essay Topic 2

How would you characterize the relationship between Audie Murphy, the real-life decorated American WWII soldier, and the director John Huston? Cite specific references to the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

After production is finished on "The Red Badge of Courage," Huston moves immediately on to his next project. Write an essay explaining how producer Gottfried Reinhardt feels about Huston's rapid pivot to his next project, and how the pivot ultimately seems to have affected the final version of the film.

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