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Taxi Driver Quiz 1

1 Where does the film take place?
Washington, DC

New York City

Boston

Detroit
2 When was the film released?
1971

1976

1980

1975
3 Who directed the film?
John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Francis Ford Coppola

Martin Scorsese
4 Who stars as Travis Bickle?
Albert Brooks

Harvey Keitel

Robert De Niro

Al Pacino
5 What does Travis tell the man at the taxi depot he suffers from?
Insomnia

Depression

Bipolar disorder

PTSD
6 How old is Travis?
32

30

25

26
7 What branch of the military was Travis in?
Air Force

Marine Corps

Army

Navy
8 What is "moonlighting"?
Doing drugs at night

Nightwalking

Taking a second job

Going undercover
9 When Travis speaks in voiceover, what is he doing?
Dictating his novel to an assistant

Omnisciently watching over all the action of the movie, like an author

Addressing the other inmates in a prison

Writing in a journal
10 What does Travis say he has to clean off the backseat of his cab at the end of each night?
Semen and blood

Drugs

Food

Vomit
11 What establishments does Travis most frequent in his leisure time?
Restaurants

Public libraries

Sports arenas

Pornographic movie theaters
12 What does Travis do to the concessions clerk at the porno movie house?
Call her racial slurs

Hit on her

Befriend her

Threaten to get her fired
13 What does Travis drink at the movies?
Coca-Cola

Bourbon

Fruit punch

Coors Light
14 "I believe that someone should be a person like _________________"
Senator Palantine

Me

No one else

Other people
15 Where are Palantine's campaign headquarters?
36th and 6th

42nd and 8th

Greenwich Village

63rd and Broadway
16 What color dress is Betsy wearing when Travis first sees her?
Black

Red

Yellow

White
17 What does Betsy do for a living?
Works for Palantine

Designs wedding dresses

Goes to graduate school

Waits tables
18 What does Tom argue about on the phone when we first encounter him?
Low voter turn-out

His love life

A typo on the campaign buttons

The core values of liberalism
19 What does Tom casually tell Betsy when she tells him to look outside at the staring Travis?
That he used to drive cabs

That he is going to quit the campaign

That he loves her

That he doesn't know why they're friends
20 What does Travis do when Tom comes out to his car to confront him about staring?
Call him a "fag"

Give him the middle finger

Ask him about Betsy

Speed away
21 Who plays Betsy?
Cybill Shepherd

Farah Fawcett

Natalie Wood

Susan Sarandon
22 Who plays Tom?
Christopher Walken

Willem Dafoe

Albert Brooks

Eugene Levy
23 What issue does Tom say they should stress to voters about Palantine?
Abortion

Racial equality

Mandatory welfare

Universal healthcare
24 What is Wizard discussing when we first encounter him?
The taxi driver union

The difference between right and wrong

New York politics

A recent sexual exploit
25 Who plays Wizard?
Danny DeVito

Albert Brooks

Gene Wilder

Peter Boyle

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