On the Waterfront Quizzes

On the Waterfront Quiz 1

1 Who directed the film?
Tennessee Williams

George Cukor

Elia Kazan

John Ford
2 When was the film released?
1959

1957

1951

1954
3 Who wrote the screenplay?
Budd Schulberg

Arthur Miller

Elia Kazan

Tennessee Williams
4 Who plays Terry Malloy?
Paul Newman

Marlon Brando

James Dean

Al Pacino
5 On what film had Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando previously collaborated?
A Streetcar Named Desire

Baby Doll

East of Eden

The Wild One
6 Where does the film take place?
Hoboken, NJ

Queens, NY

Bridgeport, CT

Brooklyn, NY
7 Who plays Johnny Friendly?
Lee J. Cobb

Henry Fonda

Elia Kazan

Karl Malden
8 What does Terry deliver to Joey Doyle's apartment?
A threatening note from Johnny

A gun for protection

A pigeon

A letter from Edie
9 How is Joey murdered?
He's poisoned

He's stabbed in the back

He's driven to suicide

He's pushed off the roof of his apartment
10 What is Edie's response to Father Barry on the night of Joey's death?
She is calm and wants to enlist his help

She thinks that he killed Joey

She is angry and inconsolable

She tells him that she is afraid she is going to hurt someone to avenge the death of her brother
11 What was Terry's previous profession?
Boxer

Lawyer

Actor

Policeman
12 Who plays Charley Malloy?
Karl Malden

Rod Steiger

Christopher Plummer

Lee J. Cobb
13 What is Charley's relationship to Terry?
They were rival boxers

They are childhood best friends

They are brothers

They are cousins
14 Who plays Father Barry?
Henry Fonda

Karl Malden

Eli Wallach

James Stewart
15 Why did they murder Joey?
He was going to talk to the Waterfront Crime Commission

He informed a journalist about corruption at the docks

He had slept with Johnny Friendly's girlfriend

He was stealing money from Johnny Friendly
16 Who plays Edie?
Elizabeth Montgomery

Natalie Wood

Eva Marie Saint

Grace Kelly
17 What does Dugan want the shipment to be?
Bananas

Cigarettes

Melons

Irish Whiskey
18 Why does an angry mob break out at the docks on the first day back at work after the murder?
Terry gets angry on behalf of the Doyle family and throws a punch at Big Mac

Big Mac throws the work tabs into the air for them to fight over

Big Mac informs them that their paychecks are getting cut in half

Dugan yells that he is going to turn them all in to the Waterfront Crime Commission
19 What does Father Barry do at the docks?
He offers for some of the dockworkers to come and meet at his church

He makes a speech to the men about how they are all bad Christians

He asks Johnny Friendly to speak in private about Joey's death

He tells Terry that God knows what he did
20 What does Charley ask Terry to do for them after Father Barry leaves?
Stop talking to the other dockworkers

Spy on the church meeting

Start getting to work early

Stop talking to Edie
21 What is "stooling"?
Killing someone who is disloyal to Johnny

Working hard at the docks

Ratting on your friends

Praying to Jesus for redemption
22 What is Johnny's position?
Owner of the docks

Union leader

Mayor of Hoboken

Fellow dockworker
23 Who speaks up at the church meeting?
Dugan

Nobody

Mr. Doyle

Terry
24 Why are the men suspicious of Terry at the church meeting?
He is Johnny's son

He's Charley's brother

He is smoking a cigarette

He is laughing at all comments being made
25 Why won't the men speak up?
They think Father Barry has been employed by Johnny

They love Johnny and don't want to be disloyal

They are "deaf and dumb" and are afraid of getting killed

They think that they will be punished by God if they do

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