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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. Where does Dore Schary give a speech about film making in the section titled "What's Wrong With Mocha's Opinion?"?
(a) The Oscars.
(b) The Screen Actors' Guild Awards.
(c) The Columbia University Film School.
(d) The Drama Festival at the College of the Pacific.

2. What does the M-G-M publicity director tell Ross about how they will know whether "The Red Badge of Courage" is a great film?
(a) They will know on the last day of filming.
(b) They will know when L.B. Mayer sees it.
(c) They will know by how the actors are talking about it.
(d) They will know when audiences see it for the first time.

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

4. What is the composer on the "Red Badge of Courage" convinced of about every film he works on?
(a) Music is the most important part of the film.
(b) Music can sometimes take away from a film's story.
(c) There is something in the picture that is wrong, and his music can fix it.
(d) Music is the hardest part of a film to work on.

5. What is one of Arthur Band's duties on the film?
(a) He decides which extras to kill off.
(b) He gets extra clothes for the cast when needed.
(c) He calls the cast and crew for lunch.
(d) He decides what changes to make to the script.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reinhardt think about how the scenes with the extras look?

2. Which play does Huston remember his father getting terrible reviews in?

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

4. 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"?

5. Where does Reinhardt say they will have to do the retakes for "The Red Badge of Courage"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the cast and crew shoot the film's major battle scenes during Part III of the book?

2. What premise does the musical composer Bronislau Kaper bring to every film he works on?

3. How does the audience react to the second preview?

4. How does one of the extras, Benny Burt, know John Huston personally?

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

6. By the end of Part III of the book, how is Reinhardt feeling about "The Red Badge of Courage's" prospects?

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

8. What does Schary lament about the promotional prospects for the film after viewing it with Huston and Reinhardt at his home in Part IV?

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

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

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