M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?

The Godfather

The Safe Cracker

The Judge

The Mastermind
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?

A cup and ball game

A balloon

A doll

A ball
3 What does the gang offer the street people for surveilling the streets?

A banquet

Liquor

A bounty

A job
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?

An abandoned distillery

An office building

A speakeasy

An apartment
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Want to throw up

Optimistic about finding leads
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about

How he managed to break into the office building

His boss's identity

The whereabouts of the child murderer

What was stolen during the break-in at the office building
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

He is clearly not of sound mind

Der Schränker is not an elected judge

It is demanded by the German consitution
8 Beckert's drink of choice is

Cognac

Beer

Whiskey

Water
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?

Threatening someone who is following him

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Peeling a piece of fruit
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with

His wife, Thea von Harbou

No assistance

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

Actor Peter Lorre
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?

Article 12

The Fourth Amendment

Article 51

Martial law
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?

The family of a victim

The police

The school

The newspaper
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Her place setting at the dinner table

Her incomplete homework

Empty shoes
15 What does the blind vendor sell?

Balloons

Candy

Knives

Picture books
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?

Coming out of school

Reflecting in a mirror

On the swings in an empty playground

With her mother
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?

With a key he found

With the arm of his glasses

With his knife

By kicking it open
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?

Oak

Steel

Cedar

Mahogany
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?

Dramatic make-up

Odd camera angles

Surreal set design

Shadows
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?

Mirror

Cigars

Fedoras

Pocket watches
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?

The child murderer

Walking home alone

A bully

A passing car on the street
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?

Guilty with the death sentence

We don't find out

Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with life in prison
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?

Red

Black

Green

Blue
24 What space do the police NOT visit during their search?

Mental asylum

Prison

A pharmacy

Speakeasy
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?

The Man with Seven Watches

Der Schränker

The Security Guard

Franz

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