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City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?
William Goldman

Frances Marion

Steven Spielberg

Charlie Chaplin
2 Who directed the film?
Orson Welles

Jean Renoir

Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin
3 When was the film released?
1931

1929

1940

1930
4 Who produced the film?
Victor Fleming

John Ford

Charlie Chaplin

Howard Hawks
5 Who wrote the music?
Charlie Chaplin

Bernard Herrmann

George Gershwin

Leonard Bernstein
6 Who plays the lead character?
Buster Keaton

William Haines

Charlie Chaplin

Rudolph Valentino
7 Who is the main character?
The Eccentric Millionaire

The Tramp

The Flower Girl

James, the butler
8 Where do we first encounter the Tramp?
Begging for money on the street

On a train towards New York

Sitting next to the river

Sleeping on top of a new monument
9 In which city does the film take place?
New York

It doesn't specify

London

Paris
10 Who composed the theme music for the Flower Girl?
José Padila

Leonard Bernstein

Paul Bowles

George Gershwin
11 What was the first "talkie"?
Arsenic and Old Lace

The Circus

The Jazz Singer

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12 Which of the following is not a Charlie Chaplin film?
Modern Times

The Great Dictator

The General

The Kid
13 What does the monument signify?
Peace and Prosperity

The end of a great war

Wealth and Wisdom

The spread of democracy
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?
His cane

His hat

His wallet

His flower
15 What does the Tramp stare at in a shop window?
A ring

A movie playing on a screen

A wind-up toy

A nude statue
16 What nearly happens to the Tramp as he stares in the shop window?
He nearly trips the Flower Girl

He nearly gets hit with a fridge falling from an overhead apartment

He nearly gets pickpocketed

He nearly falls in a manhole
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?
Poems

Scarves

Paintings

Flowers
18 What does the Tramp notice about the girl?
She is wearing rags

She's blind

She has a scar on her forehead

She has a wooden leg
19 What does the Flower Girl throw on the Tramp (accidentally)?
Wine

Rotting flowers

Water

A handkerchief
20 Why does the Flower Girl seem disappointed when she stands by her window?
She doesn't have any money

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive

She hears two lovers walking by

It's starting to rain
21 How does the Millionaire plan to kill himself?
Drowning

Jumping off a building

Poison

Hanging
22 Where does the Tramp find the Millionaire?
At the river

In his mansion

At the dancehall

On the roof of the capitol
23 Why does the Millionaire want to kill himself?
He recently got a divorce

He recently filed bankruptcy

His son died in the war

He has clinical depression
24 Who plays the Millionaire?
Hank Mann

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton

Harry Myers
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?
Lillian Gish

Clara Bow

Louise Brooks

Virginia Cherrill

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