M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?
The Godfather

The Judge

The Mastermind

The Safe Cracker
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?
A cup and ball game

A ball

A balloon

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

A bounty

A job

Liquor
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An apartment

An abandoned distillery

An office building

A speakeasy
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Optimistic about finding leads

Want to throw up

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Imagine a pile of new paperwork
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
The whereabouts of the child murderer

His boss's identity

How he managed to break into the office building

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
Der Schränker is not an elected judge

It is demanded by the German consitution

He is clearly not of sound mind

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Water

Whiskey

Beer

Cognac
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Carving his initials at a crime scene

Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Threatening someone who is following him

Peeling a piece of fruit
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
Actor Peter Lorre

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

His wife, Thea von Harbou

No assistance
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 51

The Fourth Amendment

Article 12

Martial law
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The family of a victim

The police

The newspaper

The school
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
J.S. Bach's Fugue in G

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

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

Her incomplete homework

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Empty shoes
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Balloons

Candy

Picture books

Knives
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
Reflecting in a mirror

Coming out of school

With her mother

On the swings in an empty playground
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?
With the arm of his glasses

With a key he found

By kicking it open

With his knife
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Cedar

Oak

Mahogany

Steel
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?
Dramatic make-up

Shadows

Surreal set design

Odd camera angles
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Mirror

Fedoras

Pocket watches

Cigars
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?
The child murderer

A bully

Walking home alone

A passing car on the street
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Guilty with life in prison

We don't find out

Guilty with the death sentence

Not guilty due to insanity
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Blue

Black

Green

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

A pharmacy

Mental asylum

Prison
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?
Der Schränker

The Security Guard

The Man with Seven Watches

Franz

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