The Maltese Falcon (1941 Film) Quizzes

The Maltese Falcon (1941 Film) Quiz 1

1 When was the film released?
1941

1945

1951

1940
2 The film is based on a:
Song

True story

Novel

Television show
3 The source from which the movie was adapted was written by:
Patricia Highsmith

Raymond Chandler

Dorothy B. Hughes

Dashiell Hammett
4 The genre of the film is:
Film noir

Romance

Tragedy

High drama
5 What is Sam Spade's profession?
Cop

Private investigator

Journalist

Lawyer
6 Who plays Sam Spade?
Clark Gable

John Huston

Humphrey Bogart

Cary Grant
7 Who directed the film?
John Ford

Howard Hawkes

John Huston

Orson Welles
8 Where does the film take place?
New York

Chicago

Los Angeles

San Francisco
9 Who announces the entrance of Ruth Wonderly?
Floyd Thursby

Sam's partner, Miles

Sam's secretary, Effie

Ruth herself
10 What does Ruth Wonderly ask Miles and Sam to do?
Steal the Maltese Falcon

Find Gutman and Cairo

Watch her at the hotel when she talks to Floyd Thursby about retrieving her "sister"

Kill Floyd Thursby
11 Ruth describes Floyd Thursby as:
Insane

Dangerous

Funny

Evil
12 What entices Sam and Miles to work for Ruth?
She blackmails them

They feel sorry for her

They think she's famous

Her beauty and hefty payment
13 What happens to Miles Archer when he follows Ruth?
He starts an affair with Ruth

He is shot

He is beaten up by Thursby

He is drugged
14 Whom does Sam call immediately after hearing about Miles' murder?
Ruth

The police

Effie

Iva
15 What does Sam discover when he phones Ruth from the scene of the crime?
She has checked out of her hotel

She hasn't left her room all evening

She has changed her name in the hotel log to Brigid

She is angry at Sam
16 Whom does Sam talk to at the scene of the crime?
A witness

A policeman friend, Tom Polhaus

Effie

A policeman enemy, Lieutenant Dundy
17 What do Tom and Dundy want to search for in Sam's apartment?
The phone number of Ruth Wonderly

A letter

The Maltese Falcon

A gun
18 What is Sam's excuse for not going home immediately after visiting the crime scene?
He was at a bar

He was walking around and thinking things over

He was visiting Iva Archer

He was praying in a church
19 What does Dundy obliquely accuse Sam of?
Having an affair with Iva

Murdering Thursby

Being a bad investigator

Being disloyal to Miles
20 What does Sam toast after being interrogated and threatened by Dundy?
I'd do it again

That's a load of hooey

Success to crime

I guess I did it
21 Who comes to visit Sam in his office first thing the day after Miles' murder?
Gutman

Cairo

Ruth

Iva
22 What does Iva ask Sam?
If he killed Miles

If he ever really loved her

If he is planning on proposing

If he is ready to have children
23 Who does Effie think killed Miles?
The police

Ruth

Sam

Iva
24 What is Ruth's real name?
Greer

Brigid

Lucy

Katherine
25 Who plays Brigid?
Lauren Bacall

Mary Astor

Gloria Grahame

Bette Davis

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