M (1931 Film) Quizzes

M (1931 Film) Quiz

1 What does Der Schränker translate to in English?
The Safe Cracker

The Godfather

The Mastermind

The Judge
2 What is Elsie playing with when she meets the killer?
A balloon

A cup and ball game

A doll

A ball
3 What does the gang offer the street people for surveilling the streets?
Liquor

A bounty

A job

A banquet
4 Where do the criminals detain Beckert?
An apartment

An abandoned distillery

An office building

A speakeasy
5 Thinking about the cooperation of the citizens makes Inspector Lohmann
Imagine a pile of new paperwork

Optimistic about finding leads

Feel skeptical that anything valuable could be reported

Want to throw up
6 Inspector Lohmann wants Franz to confess about
How he managed to break into the office building

The whereabouts of the child murderer

What was stolen during the break-in at the office building

His boss's identity
7 Beckert's defender in the distillery court scene says he should be tried in court because
He is clearly not of sound mind

It is demanded by the German consitution

The defender himself is not a certified lawyer

Der Schränker is not an elected judge
8 Beckert's drink of choice is
Cognac

Whiskey

Beer

Water
9 Which of the followig times do we see Beckert use his knife?
Cutting a girl's lock of hair

Peeling a piece of fruit

Carving his initials at a crime scene

Threatening someone who is following him
10 Fritz Lang wrote with movie with
His wife, Thea von Harbou

Fellow Weimar-era director G.W. Pabst

Actor Peter Lorre

No assistance
11 What law does Der Schränker cite that would be used to acquit Beckert in court?
Article 12

The Fourth Amendment

Martial law

Article 51
12 Where does Hans Beckert mail his first letter to?
The school

The police

The family of a victim

The newspaper
13 What is the song Beckert whistles?
Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

J.S. Bach's Fugue in G
14 What image are we shown to signify that Elsie has not returned home?
Her place setting at the dinner table

A rocking horse rocking by itself

Empty shoes

Her incomplete homework
15 What does the blind vendor sell?
Knives

Picture books

Balloons

Candy
16 How does Beckert spot his second potential victim in the film?
With her mother

On the swings in an empty playground

Reflecting in a mirror

Coming out of school
17 How does Beckert try to pick the lock of the door he's trapped behind in the office building?
With a key he found

With the arm of his glasses

By kicking it open

With his knife
18 What sort of table do the police think Beckert's note was written on?
Mahogany

Cedar

Oak

Steel
19 What element of German Expressionism does Fritz Lang use to greatest effect?
Shadows

Dramatic make-up

Odd camera angles

Surreal set design
20 What is one item associated with aristocracy in this film?
Cigars

Fedoras

Pocket watches

Mirror
21 What is the first danger to which Elsie is exposed?
A passing car on the street

The child murderer

Walking home alone

A bully
22 What is the judge's verdict at the end?
Not guilty due to insanity

Guilty with the death sentence

Guilty with life in prison

We don't find out
23 What color does the killer write his letter in?
Green

Black

Blue

Red
24 What space do the police NOT visit during their search?
A pharmacy

Speakeasy

Mental asylum

Prison
25 Who is portrayed as the conscience of the criminal underworld?
The Security Guard

Franz

Der Schränker

The Man with Seven Watches

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