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Martin Scorsese

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1. What war did Travis fight in?

(A) World War II

(B) The Korean War

(D) The Gulf War

2. From which movie does Taxi Driver take its plot line?

(A) Star Wars

(B) Chinatown

(D) The Searchers

3. What reason does the unnamed passenger give for wanting to kill his wife, whom he sees in a lighted window?

(A) She was kidnapped by Indians

(B) She is having another man's child

(D) She is sleeping with a black man

4. Who does Travis reach out to for advice when he's really down about Betsy?

(A) Doughboy

(B) Sport

(D) Wizard

5. What does Travis say he'd like Palantine to do if Palantine becomes president?

(A) Clean up New York City

(B) Kick people off welfare

(D) Raise fares for taxi drivers

6. When does Travis first encounter Iris?

(A) When he accidentally runs into her with his cab

(B) When she jumps into the cab and asks him to get her away from a man who throws Travis twenty dollars

(D) When she asks him if he's looking for some action

7. Where does Travis drive his cab?

(A) Only in and around Times Square

(B) Only in Manhattan

(D) Everywhere

8. Which feeling overwhelms Travis's sensibility throughout the film?

(A) Passion

(B) Self-pity

(D) Fear

9. Which role does the director, Martin Scorsese, play?

(A) Sport

(B) Wizard

(D) The man who sticks up the convenience store

10. Which book had the greatest influence on Taxi Driver?

(A) The Stranger

(B) Notes from Underground

(D) War and Peace

11. What is the slogan for Palantine's campaign?

(A) We are the people

(B) Let the people rule

(D) Fight for your future

12. Who does not point and shoot an imaginary handgun at Travis?

(A) Travis

(B) Doughboy

(D) Charlie T

13. What instrument in Bernard Hermann's score plays the theme that represents the lonely man?

(A) Saxophone

(B) Clarinet

(D) Piano

14. In what year does the film most likely take place?

(A) 1965

(B) 1970

(D) 1980

15. What reason does Travis give in his interview for wanting to be a taxi driver?

(A) He can't sleep

(B) He's lonely

(D) He likes driving

16. Who is the first person Travis kills?

(A) Sport

(B) The man who takes the money for Iris's room

(D) The man sticking up the convenience store

17. Who wrote the song that reminds Betsy of Travis?

(A) Paul Simon

(B) Kris Krisofferson

(D) Guns 'n' Roses

18. Who sells Travis his guns?

(A) Easy Andy

(B) Doughboy

(D) Wizard

19. Which is not one of Travis's preparations for assassinating Palantine?

(A) Holding his fist over a gas flame

(B) Striking up a conversation with a Secret Service agent

(D) Cutting his hair into a Mohawk

20. Where do Iris's parents live?

(A) Pittsburgh

(B) New York City

(D) San Francisco

21. Where would Iris like to go if she were to leave prostitution behind?

(A) Home to Pittsburgh

(B) A commune in Vermont

(D) Mexico

22. Why doesn't Travis get in trouble for shooting the man in the convenience store?

(A) Because it was self-defense

(B) Because the cashier takes responsibility

(D) Because he throws the gun into the river

23. To whom does Travis direct his "You talkin' to me?" speech?

(A) Betsy

(B) Sport

(D) Palantine

24. Which is not one of the shows Travis watches on television?

(A) A news magazine featuring the aftermath of the Vietnam War in Cambodia

(B) A soap opera

(D) American Bandstand

25. Taxi Driver's score is most similar to the score of which movie?

(A) Chinatown

(B) Vertigo

(D) The Searchers

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