The Kid Quizzes

The Kid Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Kid?
The writer is unknown

Charles Wu

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton
2 In what year was The Kid released?
1941

2001

1921

1831
3 What form does The Kid take?
Novel

Silent film

Play

Short film
4 What adjective best captures The Woman's emotion as she leaves the charity hospital?
Unhappy

Blissed-out

Nonchalant

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

A scientist

An artist

A banker
6 Where does The Woman leave her child?
Backseat of a car

Bank teller's desk

Park bench

Church pew
7 What ironic thing happens to the car?
It is demolished

It explodes

Two men steal it

The child drives it
8 Where do the thieves leave the child?
A church

A police station

An alley

A hospital
9 What does The Tramp keep in his tin?
Cannabis

Cigar and cigarette ends

Alcohol

Band-Aids
10 Where does The Tramp find the child?
Under his hat

On a staircase

Next to a trashcan

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

He never tries to get rid of it

By giving it to a woman with another baby

Returning it to the mother
12 What type of hat does The Tramp wear?
Fedora

Newsboy cap

Bowler

Baseball cap
13 Which answer best defines "tramp"?
Retired police officer

Type of clown

Vagrant or beggar who travels place to place

Rich philanthropist
14 Why can't The Tramp abaondon the baby at first?
The baby clings to him

The baby is too cute to abandon

He never tries to abandon it

A policeman catches him
15 What does The Tramp find with the baby?
A full diaper

A note

Money

A jewel
16 What happens to The Woman when standing on the bridge?
A dog bites her

Her baby returns to her

Nothing

A child hugs her legs
17 Why does The Woman return to the house with the fancy car?
She wants to get her baby back

She wants to steal the car

She doesn't return

She wants to rob the people who live there
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 jar

A tin soda can

A kettle on a string

A false breast
20 Why does The Tramp cut a hole in a chair?
He is crazy

To make a happy face to surprise the child

To make a potty for the baby

He needs the circle cut out of it for something else
21 How much time passes between the opening scenes of the film and the main part?
Five years

Ten years

Twenty years

One year
22 What does The Kid do with the quarter he puts in the gas meter?
Takes it out again once the gas is flowing

Loses it in a floorboard crack

Buys milk with it

Steals it
23 Which answer best describes the place where The Tramp and The Kid live?
Opulent

Shabby

Middle-class

Well-insulated
24 Why does The Kid throw rocks at windows?
He is just a trouble-maker

So The Tramp can get paid to repair them

To break into homes

To test his throwing arm
25 With whom does The Tramp flirt?
Every woman he meets

The policeman's wife

No one

The boy's mother

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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