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Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

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1. Which war provides the backdrop for Apocalypse Now?

(A) The Korean War

(B) The Cold War

(D) The Vietnam War

2. What or whom do Chef and Willard encounter in the jungle?

(A) Mangoes

(B) A tiger

(D) Vietcong soldiers

3. Who opens fire on the Vietnamese sampan?

(A) Clean

(B) Chief

(D) Lance

4. For what is Willard's journey a metaphor?

(A) A journey into the self

(B) America

(D) A journey into the center of the universe

5. Who directed Apocalypse Now?

(A) Marlon Brando

(B) Francis Ford Coppola

(D) Harvey Keitel

6. On which work of literature is Apocalypse Now based?

(A) Apocalypse Now by Joseph Conrad

(B) The Apocalypse by Michael Herr

(D) Dispatches by Michael Herr

7. The narrative takes place largely on what river?

(A) Mekong

(B) Kwai

(D) Congo

8. Why does the USO show end so soon?

(A) The Playmates get tired

(B) The music cuts off

(D) Soldiers charge the stage

9. Who or what kills Chief?

(A) A spear

(B) A bullet

(D) The river

10. What does Kurtz throw into Willard's lap while Willard is imprisoned?

(A) Lance's severed arm

(B) A sandwich

(D) Chef's severed head

11. Which poet is quoted by both Kurtz and the photojournalist?

(A) T. S. Eliot

(B) George Eliot

(D) Michael Herr

12. What are the Montagnards doing while Kurtz is being killed?

(A) Setting fire to Lance

(B) Slaughtering a caribou

(D) Encircling the PBR

13. Where was the film shot?

(A) Vietnam

(B) The Philippines

(D) Cambodia

14. What did Lance do in California before the war?

(A) He was a football player

(B) He was a rock-and-roll star

(D) He was a writer

15. Who loves the smell of napalm in the morning?

(A) Kilgore

(B) Lance

(D) Kurtz

16. What is the film's climax?

(A) Willard leaves Kurtz's compound

(B) Chief dies

(D) Willard emerges from the river bathed in mud

17. Where is Kurtz located?

(A) Vietnam

(B) The Philippines

(D) Cambodia

18. What song does Kilgore blast from his helicopters during the air strike?

(A) “The End”

(B) “Ride of the Valkyries”

(D) “America the Beautiful”

19. Who kills the injured Vietnamese woman on the sampan?

(A) Willard

(B) Chief

(D) Clean

20. What are Kurtz's last words?

(A) “The darkness rules”

(B) “Apocalypse now”

(D) “What madness”

21. What is Clean listening to when he gets shot?

(A) His mother's voice on an audio tape recording

(B) The Doors

(D) A rooster crowing in the distance

22. Where does Willard find Lance after he kills Kurtz?

(A) Amidst the Montagnard natives

(B) In the PBR

(D) In the jungle

23. When the film starts, Willard is:

(A) At home with his wife

(B) In a helicopter

(D) In the jungle

24. What is Willard's mission?

(A) To terminate Kurtz

(B) To liberate the Montagnards

(D) To find and institutionalize Kurtz

25. At Kurtz's compound, what does Willard tell Chef to do if he doesn't return by a specified hour?

(A) Leave immediately

(B) Call in an air strike

(D) Kill Kurtz

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