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Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock

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1. What is Midge’s relationship to Scottie?

(A) Mother

(B) Sister

(D) Therapist

2. From what kind of phobia does Scottie suffer?

(A) Fear of the dark (scotophobia)

(B) Fear of heights (acrophobia)

(D) Fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia)

3. In what city is Vertigo set?

(A) San Francisco

(B) Los Angeles

(D) Santa Fe

4. Why does Gavin Elster want Scottie to follow his wife?

(A) He suspects she is having an affair with another man

(B) He suspects she is having an affair with a woman

(D) He wants to buy time to arrange a surprise party for her

5. Which of the following places is NOT visited by the wandering Madeleine?

(A) A jewelry store

(B) A florist

(D) A graveyard

6. Where do Scottie and Midge go to learn about the history of Carlotta Valdes?

(A) The local library

(B) The San Francisco Historical Society

(D) Pop Leibel’s bookstore

7. How does Scottie save Madeleine’s life?

(A) He knocks pills out of her hand right before she swallows them

(B) He replaces the bullets in her gun with blanks

(D) He pulls her out of San Francisco Bay

8. In the sequoia forest, what does Scottie tell Madeleine the trees’ name means?

(A) Death comes eventually to all living things

(B) Ever green, ever living

(D) Old as dirt, bigger than big

9. Scottie recognizes the place Madeleine describes from her dreams as what landmark location?

(A) The Golden Gate Bridge

(B) Mission San Juan Bautista

(D) Coronado Island

10. As Scottie pursues Madeleine up the bell tower, what does he see from the window?

(A) Skywriting from a plane saying “Turn back now!”

(B) Midge parking her car

(D) Elster embracing a nun

11. Who conducts the inquest following Madeleine’s death?

(A) The coroner

(B) The chief of police

(D) Gavin Elster

12. Where does Scottie spend the year following Madeleine’s death?

(A) In Midge’s apartment

(B) In his own apartment

(D) In a sanatorium

13. When Scottie quizzes Judy about her identity, who does she claim to be?

(A) Midge’s sister

(B) A department store clerk from Kansas

(D) A ghost

14. Before Judy’s first date with Scottie, what does she do?

(A) Goes out and buys a new dress

(B) Calls her mother

(D) Takes a handful of pills

15. In Judy’s letter to Scottie, what does she confess?

(A) That she had played the role of Madeleine in a plot to murder Elster’s wife

(B) That she could never love Scottie

(D) That she is really a man

16. What does Judy do with her letter to Scottie?

(A) Tears it up

(B) Sends it to Scottie at his apartment

(D) Reads it aloud to Scottie

17. Which of the following is NOT something Scottie asks Judy to do to be more like Madeleine?

(A) Dye her hair blonde

(B) Take a course in etiquette

(D) Wear her hair up in a bun

18. In what color light is Judy bathed when she emerges as the fully transformed Madeleine?

(A) Red

(B) Green

(D) Rainbow

19. How does Scottie react to Judy’s complete transformation?

(A) With horror

(B) With amusement

(D) With passionate ecstasy

20. How does Judy slip and reveal her former identity as “Madeleine”?

(A) She mentions to Scottie their trip to the sequoia forest

(B) She tells Scottie that the dress he has chosen isn’t exactly like Madeleine’s

(D) She leaves in plain view a picture of her as “Madeleine” with Elster

21. Where does Scottie take Judy after he learns of her true identity?

(A) Out to dinner at Ernie’s

(B) To a psychiatrist

(D) To the bell tower at Mission San Juan Bautista

22. Which of the following sentiments is NOT expressed by Judy as Scottie drags her to the top of the tower?

(A) Guilt and shame for her part in the plot

(B) Scorn for Scottie for the ease with which he had been duped

(D) Intense fear

23. What does Scottie do to Judy when they reach the top of the tower?

(A) Embraces her

(B) Pushes her out the window

(D) Tells her “Get thee to a nunnery”

24. What startles Judy into falling out of the tower?

(A) An enormous rat

(B) The shadowy figure of a nun

(D) Recognition of her own fear of heights

25. What are the final words of the film, spoken by the nun?

(A) “All’s well that ends well”

(B) “Dona nobis pacem”

(D) “After pride cometh the fall”

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