The Kid Quizzes

The Kid Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Kid?
Charles Wu

Buster Keaton

The writer is unknown

Charlie Chaplin
2 In what year was The Kid released?
2001

1831

1921

1941
3 What form does The Kid take?
Silent film

Short film

Play

Novel
4 What adjective best captures The Woman's emotion as she leaves the charity hospital?
Blissed-out

Nonchalant

Joyous

Unhappy
5 With whom does The Woman conceive her child?
Her cousin

An artist

A scientist

A banker
6 Where does The Woman leave her child?
Bank teller's desk

Backseat of a car

Park bench

Church pew
7 What ironic thing happens to the car?
The child drives it

Two men steal it

It is demolished

It explodes
8 Where do the thieves leave the child?
An alley

A church

A hospital

A police station
9 What does The Tramp keep in his tin?
Band-Aids

Alcohol

Cigar and cigarette ends

Cannabis
10 Where does The Tramp find the child?
Next to a trashcan

On a staircase

Under his hat

In a barrel
11 How does The Tramp first try to get rid of the child?
Bringing it to the police

Returning it to the mother

He never tries to get rid of it

By giving it to a woman with another baby
12 What type of hat does The Tramp wear?
Fedora

Bowler

Newsboy cap

Baseball cap
13 Which answer best defines "tramp"?
Type of clown

Rich philanthropist

Retired police officer

Vagrant or beggar who travels place to place
14 Why can't The Tramp abaondon the baby at first?
The baby is too cute to abandon

He never tries to abandon it

A policeman catches him

The baby clings to him
15 What does The Tramp find with the baby?
A full diaper

Money

A note

A jewel
16 What happens to The Woman when standing on the bridge?
Her baby returns to her

A dog bites her

Nothing

A child hugs her legs
17 Why does The Woman return to the house with the fancy car?
She wants to rob the people who live there

She doesn't return

She wants to steal the car

She wants to get her baby back
18 Why does The Woman faint?
She learns her baby is dead

Her clothing is too much for the summer heat

She learns the car with her child was stolen

None of these
19 What does The Tramp use as a baby's bottle?
A false breast

A tin soda can

A kettle on a string

A jar
20 Why does The Tramp cut a hole in a chair?
To make a potty for the baby

He needs the circle cut out of it for something else

To make a happy face to surprise the child

He is crazy
21 How much time passes between the opening scenes of the film and the main part?
Twenty years

One year

Five years

Ten years
22 What does The Kid do with the quarter he puts in the gas meter?
Steals it

Takes it out again once the gas is flowing

Buys milk with it

Loses it in a floorboard crack
23 Which answer best describes the place where The Tramp and The Kid live?
Shabby

Opulent

Middle-class

Well-insulated
24 Why does The Kid throw rocks at windows?
To break into homes

He is just a trouble-maker

To test his throwing arm

So The Tramp can get paid to repair them
25 With whom does The Tramp flirt?
No one

The boy's mother

The policeman's wife

Every woman he meets

How does poverty affect the little tramp's ability to parent the kid?

Outside of a few questionable "moral" lessons, the tramp is an excellent parent. His relationship with the boy is open, loving, and reciprocated.

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What job or trade did poverty teach the kid?

Poverty and need led the boy to steal.

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What is Chaplin’s message—comic or tragic—about being a parent? Give example

This is one of my favorite films..... in context, I believe that Chaplin's message is simple, it takes love to be a real parent. Examples..... the mother gives up her child, hoping to insure his future. Chaplin raises the child out of love, he...

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The Kid

by Charles Chaplin

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