City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?
Frances Marion

William Goldman

Charlie Chaplin

Steven Spielberg
2 Who directed the film?
Orson Welles

Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin

Jean Renoir
3 When was the film released?
1929

1930

1931

1940
4 Who produced the film?
John Ford

Charlie Chaplin

Victor Fleming

Howard Hawks
5 Who wrote the music?
Leonard Bernstein

George Gershwin

Bernard Herrmann

Charlie Chaplin
6 Who plays the lead character?
Rudolph Valentino

Charlie Chaplin

William Haines

Buster Keaton
7 Who is the main character?
James, the butler

The Eccentric Millionaire

The Flower Girl

The Tramp
8 Where do we first encounter the Tramp?
Sleeping on top of a new monument

On a train towards New York

Sitting next to the river

Begging for money on the street
9 In which city does the film take place?
It doesn't specify

Paris

London

New York
10 Who composed the theme music for the Flower Girl?
José Padila

George Gershwin

Leonard Bernstein

Paul Bowles
11 What was the first "talkie"?
Arsenic and Old Lace

The Jazz Singer

The Circus

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12 Which of the following is not a Charlie Chaplin film?
The General

Modern Times

The Kid

The Great Dictator
13 What does the monument signify?
Wealth and Wisdom

Peace and Prosperity

The end of a great war

The spread of democracy
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?
His flower

His wallet

His hat

His cane
15 What does the Tramp stare at in a shop window?
A wind-up toy

A ring

A movie playing on a screen

A nude statue
16 What nearly happens to the Tramp as he stares in the shop window?
He nearly gets pickpocketed

He nearly gets hit with a fridge falling from an overhead apartment

He nearly falls in a manhole

He nearly trips the Flower Girl
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?
Paintings

Poems

Scarves

Flowers
18 What does the Tramp notice about the girl?
She has a scar on her forehead

She's blind

She is wearing rags

She has a wooden leg
19 What does the Flower Girl throw on the Tramp (accidentally)?
Wine

Water

Rotting flowers

A handkerchief
20 Why does the Flower Girl seem disappointed when she stands by her window?
It's starting to rain

She doesn't have any money

She hears two lovers walking by

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive
21 How does the Millionaire plan to kill himself?
Jumping off a building

Hanging

Poison

Drowning
22 Where does the Tramp find the Millionaire?
At the dancehall

On the roof of the capitol

At the river

In his mansion
23 Why does the Millionaire want to kill himself?
He recently got a divorce

He recently filed bankruptcy

He has clinical depression

His son died in the war
24 Who plays the Millionaire?
Hank Mann

Harry Myers

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?
Clara Bow

Virginia Cherrill

Lillian Gish

Louise Brooks

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