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Stories We Tell

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Diane first saw Michael perform in...

a)

The Caretakers Daughter

b)

The Condemned of Altona

c)

Oh Toronto

d)

Filamena

2.

Diane died in

a)

1978

b)

1983

c)

1990

d)

1963

3.

Whenever I would meet Diane she would always

a)

be in trouble

b)

be laughing

c)

crying

d)

partying

4.

I think Diane fell in love with

a)

the character I was playing on stage

b)

Michael

c)

Harry

d)

Jeff

5.

Diane was playing the part of

a)

the actress and me as the German officer

b)

the housekeeper

c)

the wife

d)

the gardener

6.

He was centred and inside himself

a)

She was so far outside herself sometimes there was nothing left inside

b)

she was also a private person

c)

she was a woman of secrets

d)

she did not have two faces for the world

7.

Diane was not a private person, she really lacked

a)

guille

b)

tact

c)

subtlety

d)

insight

8.

I don't know if she showed different faces to different people but I did sense she was a

a)

woman of secrets

b)

woman of great openness

c)

woman of gerosity

d)

woman of vitality

9.

Diane was so attracted to his mind but she yearned for more

a)

demonstrable affection from him

b)

communication from him

c)

love from him

d)

commitment

10.

He was a good writer but he didn't

a)

pursue it

b)

use his talent

c)

embrace his gift

d)

harness his skills

11.

In 1978 she came to me and she said I've been offered a part in a play called

a)

Oh Toronto

b)

Filumena

c)

The Caretakers Daughter

d)

The Condemned of Altona

12.

Diane loved parties Michael

a)

solitude

b)

reading

c)

movies

d)

camping

13.

He knew he disappointed her, that he never lived up to her early vision of

a)

Mick and Franz

b)

Harry

c)

love

d)

romance

14.
Often a long shot or series of shots that sets the scene.  
a)
Establishing Shot
b)
Long shot
c)
Two shot
d)
Mise en Scene
15.
The arrangement of performers and properties on a stage for a theatrical production or in front of the camera in a film.
a)
Cross Cutting
b)
Point of View
c)
Placement
d)
Mise en Scene
16.
Most common editing technique.  Two pieces of film are spliced together to change to a different image.
a)
Cut
b)
Dissolve
c)
Wipe
d)
Flashback
17.
Cut or dissolve to action that has happened in the past.
a)
Cross cutting
b)
Point of view
c)
Eye-Line-Match
d)
Flashback
18.
Cut to an object, then to a person.  This technique shows what a person seems to be looking at.
a)
Flashback
b)
Shot-Reverse-Shot
c)
Cross Cutting
d)
Eye-Line-Match
19.
The image being shot takes up at least 80 percent of the frame.
a)
Long shot
b)
Medium shot
c)
Close up
d)
Extreme close up
20.
Sounds that would be logically heard by the characters in the film.
a)
Diegetic
b)
Non-diegetic
21.
Sounds that could not be heard by the characters.
a)
Diagetic
b)
Non-diegetic
22.
The image being shot is part of a whole.
a)
Long shot
b)
Close up
c)
Extreme Close Up
d)
Mise en Scene
23.
Pivoting up or down along a vertical axis.
a)
Pan
b)
Tilt
c)
Zoom
d)
Boom
24.
Camera shoots the subject from below.
a)
Eye level
b)
High Angle
c)
Low Angle
d)
Tilt
25.
Camera shoots the subject from above.
a)
Eye Level
b)
High Angle
c)
Low Angle
d)
Agove Angle
26.
Stationary camera that moves side to side.
a)
Pan
b)
Tilt
c)
Zoom
d)
Boom
27.
A single piece of film uninterrupted by cuts.
a)
Shot
b)
Pan
c)
Tilt
d)
Wipe
28.

Who is the non-diegetic narrator?

a)

Harry

b)

Michael

c)

Johnny

d)

Tom

29.

Finish Bon Iver's lyrics

a)

staring at the same old thing day after day

b)

staring at the same old regrets

c)

staring at the same old mistakes that I made

d)

staring at the same old blood and crushed veneer

30.

We've told you it's a documentary but it's

a)

actually an interrogation process

b)

actually a form of humiliation

c)

actually a fiction

d)

actually an inquisition

31.

You see Harry

a)

she never really loved you

b)

she kept all of her loyalties in tact

c)

she was committed to her kids

d)

her heart really belonged to Michael

32.

Harry is a film producer. His film Lies My Father Told me had won

a)

an oscar for best foreign film

b)

an academy award for best foreign film

c)

a golden globe for best foreign film

d)

a logi

33.

You smiled and I saw the

a)

identical cheeky smile

b)

identical flashy blue eyes

c)

identical turned up lips

d)

idenical gummy grin

34.

I don't get the sense that much changed in our family except

a)

that Johnny got married

b)

that Susy had another child

c)

that Joanna changed jobs

d)

that all three daughters got divorced

35.

It does sort of make you alter the way you look at your relationship....a truth like that

a)

kind of makes you see yourself clearly

b)

begets other truths

c)

forces you to be honest

d)

is hard to handle

36.

The process of filming the producer explores the

a)

personal life of Sarah Polley

b)

metanarrative component of the film

c)

producer's relationship with her mother

d)

the technical aspects of film making

37.

Diane Polley died in 1990, when Sarah was

a)

9

b)

8

c)

11

d)

12

38.

The lines from Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood are recited by who? When you are in the middle of a story it

isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a

dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of

shattered glass and splintered wood; like a

house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed

by the icebergs or swept over the rapids,

and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only

afterwards that it becomes anything like

a story at all. When you are telling it, to

yourself or to someone else.

a)

Deirdre

b)

Sarah

c)

Mark

d)

Michael

39.

“My dear Sarah, when you make a documentary about your own discovery of a new father, are you doing so to avoid your own deeper concerns of its real impact on you? Is that why you describe it as a search for the vagaries of (a)   and the unreliability of memory, rather than a search for a father?”

40.

Who produced the Golden

Globe winning film, Lies My Father Told Me (1975);

a)

Michael

b)

Victoria

c)

Harry

d)

Johnny

41.

Who says this? First of all, there are the players to an

incident...those who were there and who

were directly affected by it. Then there is

a circle around that of people who were

affected tangentially because of their

relationship to the principal parties. And

then there’s another concentric circle further

out there which basically has heard or been

told by one of the principal players about it,

and all of these may have different narratives.

a)

Harry

b)

Joanna

c)

Anne

d)

Mark

42.

Who says this? ‘Have I totally lost my mind

trying to reconstruct the past from other people’s words?

Trying to form her?’

a)

Deirdre

b)

Jeff

c)

Tom

d)

Sarah

43.

Marie Murphy is....

a)

Diane's primary school friend

b)

Diane's daughter

c)

Harry's wife

d)

Michael's sister

44.

Name the person: she is poised and coy, appearing

somewhat self-conscious at times, perhaps due to her role and reputation in the theatre industry, and is hesitant to reveal what she knows of Diane’s affair (though she does reveal information eventually, and seemingly with some relish). Notably, she describes Diane as an ‘open book’ who lived without guile, which contradicts Deidre’s account of Diane as a highly secretive person.

a)

Victoria

b)

Anne Tait

c)

Deirdre

d)

Marie