1. How does Lincoln deal with the figure of Mary Todd Lincoln as a historical character?

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How does Lincoln deal with the figure of Mary Todd Lincoln as a historical character?

A) She is represented as a cool, detached woman who resented her role as a mother

B) She stands in as an allegorical figure representing the suffering of mothers during the civil war

C) He reifies the standard story of her emotional and mental instability

D) It shows her as a reluctant occupant of the White House, uneasy with political life

E) The film deconstructs the traditional take on her and asserts that she played an important role in Lincoln's political successes

2.True(by manning)

In Lincoln, the Democrats in Congress, especially Fernando Wood from New York and George Pendleton fromOhio, are set up as foils in the narrative.

A) True

B) False

3.

What can we learn from Sarah Polley's modus operandi as she works through her `interrogation process' in search of clues from her own past.

A) Never look to the past, only look to the future and imagine what we can become

B) She models listening, and when we listen to other people's point of view without interrupting them, we can learn things about ourselves that we might never have known

C) It is best to just let everyone have their say and not try to mold things, edit or shape narratives.

D) Other people can get in the way of clarity about your past, so it's best not to include those views

E) The attempt to come to terms with the past in its fullness is always fraught, and can only lead to confusion

4.

Which of the following was not historically accurate in Lincoln?

A) Lincoln understood the Emancipation Proclamation as a military document

B) Lincoln knew that the Southern States after the war were likely to ratify the 13th Amendment

C) Lincoln had political rivals in his cabinet

D) Mary Todd Lincoln was a troubled woman

E) The central conceit that there was a race against time and that only at this moment could an amendment be passed.

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Spielberg can be used to represent the end of the New Hollywood because:

A) The content of his films was too escapist to be considered New Hollywood

B) He never considered himself a part of the Hollywood establishment

C) He was a film school graduate, so this belies his maverick persona.

D) His films are demonstrably anti-Hollywood

E) The model of film making that he introduced, the Summer Blockbuster model, paved the path toward a new model that revived the dominance of the studios.

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What is served by showing Lincoln persuading Representatives Yemans and Hutton to vote for the 13thAmendment?

A) To show how he was able to use logic to wear down those who disagreed with him

B) To show how he knew everyone in Washington

C) To show his master oratorical skills in everyday interaction

D) To show how he used guilt to work on those who questioned his intentions

E) To show how he gently appealed to the men's better natures to do the right thing

7.

Whose story in Stories we Tell is not included as testimony?

A) Michael Polley

B) Mark Polley

C) Joanna Polley

D) Sarah Polley

E) Harry Gulkin

8.

Stories we Tell employs a First-Person Narrator doing voice over to create its form

A) True

B) False

9.

Why was the scene with Thaddeus Stevens returning to present his housekeeper Lynda Hamilton with the Bill from the House of Representatives included?

A) To promote the view that abolitionists were the people who drove the fight against slavery behind the scenes

B) To show that Stevens was a compromised man, despite his pieties

C) To show that behind every good man is a good woman

D) To show that the Bill would matter very little for a mulatto woman forced to deal with the views of race that still characterized the North

E) To reconstruct the image of Stevens and his companion in a way that was much more human than earlier portrayals

10.

Lincoln's 1865 cabinet was a team of rivals, as shown in the film.

A) True

B) False

11.B from Carly

Which of the following best characterizes how Spielberg's Lincoln portrays its protagonists political strengths?

A) He made sure not to have nay-sayers around him who would question his authority

B) He was able to compromise in the short term to achieve a goal he believed in

C) His greatest strength was having a strong wife beside him

D) He showed that the truly great man can change the minds of everyone he speaks to

E) He was unwavering and righteous about what he knew to be right

12.

The photography of Alexander Gardner was used repeatedly in Lincoln so as to.

A) To show images of battles to help heighten the sense of conflict related to the war.

B) To create the race against time.

C) Promote a sympathetic view of plantation owners which is more in line with reality.

D) To show how much Daniel Day Lewis resembled Abraham Lincoln after carefully reconstructing his character.

E) To link the material experience of slavery in a visceral sense to the policy related to it in a drama about political decision making.

13.

The subject material for Lincoln was Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Lincoln and American Slavery

A) True

B) False

14.

In the end, the perspective of Diane created in Stories We Tell if of a character who is:

A) Funny and dynamic

B) Responsible for her children no matter what

C) Irresponsible and crazy at times

D) All of the above

E) Insecure and in search of acknowledgement

15.

Sarah Polley uses Super 8 film in Stories We Tell only to provide family shot movies from the time the other characters are talking about so as to verify their accounts of the past.

A) True