The Maltese Falcon (1941 Film) Quizzes

The Maltese Falcon (1941 Film) Quiz 1

1 When was the film released?
1940

1945

1941

1951
2 The film is based on a:
Novel

True story

Song

Television show
3 The source from which the movie was adapted was written by:
Raymond Chandler

Dashiell Hammett

Dorothy B. Hughes

Patricia Highsmith
4 The genre of the film is:
Romance

Tragedy

Film noir

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

Cop

Journalist

Private investigator
6 Who plays Sam Spade?
Humphrey Bogart

John Huston

Clark Gable

Cary Grant
7 Who directed the film?
Howard Hawkes

Orson Welles

John Ford

John Huston
8 Where does the film take place?
Chicago

New York

Los Angeles

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

Sam's secretary, Effie

Ruth herself

Sam's partner, Miles
10 What does Ruth Wonderly ask Miles and Sam to do?
Watch her at the hotel when she talks to Floyd Thursby about retrieving her "sister"

Steal the Maltese Falcon

Kill Floyd Thursby

Find Gutman and Cairo
11 Ruth describes Floyd Thursby as:
Funny

Insane

Dangerous

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

They feel sorry for her

Her beauty and hefty payment

They think she's famous
13 What happens to Miles Archer when he follows Ruth?
He is beaten up by Thursby

He is shot

He starts an affair with Ruth

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

Effie

Iva

Ruth
15 What does Sam discover when he phones Ruth from the scene of the crime?
She has changed her name in the hotel log to Brigid

She hasn't left her room all evening

She is angry at Sam

She has checked out of her hotel
16 Whom does Sam talk to at the scene of the crime?
Effie

A witness

A policeman friend, Tom Polhaus

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 praying in a church

He was visiting Iva Archer

He was walking around and thinking things over
19 What does Dundy obliquely accuse Sam of?
Being disloyal to Miles

Being a bad investigator

Having an affair with Iva

Murdering Thursby
20 What does Sam toast after being interrogated and threatened by Dundy?
I guess I did it

I'd do it again

Success to crime

That's a load of hooey
21 Who comes to visit Sam in his office first thing the day after Miles' murder?
Cairo

Gutman

Iva

Ruth
22 What does Iva ask Sam?
If he is ready to have children

If he killed Miles

If he is planning on proposing

If he ever really loved her
23 Who does Effie think killed Miles?
Iva

The police

Ruth

Sam
24 What is Ruth's real name?
Brigid

Lucy

Katherine

Greer
25 Who plays Brigid?
Gloria Grahame

Lauren Bacall

Bette Davis

Mary Astor

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