Citizen Kane

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  1. What is Citizen Kane about?

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    A boy and his mother
    All of these
    William Randolph Hearst
    A jigsaw puzzle mogul

  2. Citizen Kane is a version of Faust, the story of a man who gains the world and looses his soul.

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    TrueFalse

  3. What was the name of Kane's house?

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  4. Who played Kane's first wife?

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  5. Who played Jedediah Leland?

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  6. Who played Bernstein?

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  7. Who played Boss J.W. "Big Jim" Gettys?

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  8. Who produced Citizen Kane?

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  9. Who directed Citizen Kane?

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  10. Who starred in Citizen Kane?

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  11. Kane's mistress and later his second wife, Susan Alexander, was played by what ?

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  12. How old was Orson Welles when Citizen Kane opened?

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    40 years old
    25 years old
    19 years old
    30 years old

  13. The production cost of Citizen Kane was either $686,033 or $842,000 depending on your source.

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    TrueFalse

  14. Who did the camera work on Citizen Kane?

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  15. Who edited Citizen Kane?

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  16. How did they attain the newsreel sequences in Citizen Kane?

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    They shot it in black and white
    They rubbed the negative with sand
    They used clips from The March of Time
    He didn't do any of these things - he wanted it to appear recent

  17. What other masterpieces did Welles make?

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    "The Magnificent Ambersons"
    "War of the Worlds"
    "Long Hot Summer"
    Welles produced all of these cinema classics

  18. What did Susan do when Charlie forced her to continue singing?

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    Took two sleeping pills and called him in the morning
    Tried to take her own life
    Worked on her jigsaw puzzle
    Left him

  19. What year was Citizen Kane made?

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  20. Orson Welles' contract with RKO was hailed, at the time, as the most extraordinary contract any studio had ever given any filmmaker.

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    TrueFalse

  21. Citizen Kane only received one Academy Award, shared by Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz, for the screenplay.

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    TrueFalse

  22. Citizen Kane never got a proper national release, because it was boycotted by big studios.

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    TrueFalse

  23. Ted Turner didn't want to colorize Citizen Kane, though Orson Welles did.

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    TrueFalse

  24. William Randolph Hearst loved Citizen Kane and got all of his papers to promote the movie.

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    TrueFalse

  25. Steven Spielberg spent $20,000 on the original Rosebud.

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    TrueFalse

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