Multiple choice questions. 4 points each, 60 points in total. “Comrades: Almost a Love Story” + “Chinese Box” Colonizing Hong Kong
| When was the film Chinese Box produced? | |||
| 1979 | 1986 | 1997 | 2001 |
| What happened socially and historically in HK in this year? | |||
| Deng Xiaoping met Margaret Thatcher | HK was reverted to China | ||
| HK celebrated the 100th of British Colony | King Charles inspected HK and spoke | ||
| Why doesn’t Mr. Chang refuse to marry fiancée Vivian and would introduce her in public as his business associate? | |||
| Vivian is a Chinese and not a Hong Konger | Chang is broke and bankrupt | ||
| Vivian was a prostitute when arriving in HK | Chang is already married to a mainlander | ||
| Why does not John marry Vivian with whom he is in love? | |||
| He is racist who looks down upon Chinese | Vivian’s mother refuses such a marriage | ||
| John is diagnosed with leukemia and dying | John is still married to his wife in Britain | ||
| How did Maggie get her face scarred? | |||
| When a child, her father brutalized her | While a prostitute, a policeman raped her | ||
| Her boyfriend Williams cut her face | The reason is never revealed and known | ||
| What is John’s profession in Hong Kong for so many years? | |||
| A British reporter | An American camera man | ||
| A philanthropist and a banker | A retired businessman who loves HK | ||
| Who does the young man kill himself in a bar in front of everybody? | |||
| His girlfriend abandoned him | He is drunk | ||
| He protests HK’s loss of freedom | He is protesting British colonialism | ||
| Trying to pass herself off as a Hong Kongese, Vivian tries to speak English well. Whom is she seen imitate in the bar where she works as a waitress? | |||
| The white lady who owns the bar | A Hollywood actress | ||
| British Pri minister Margaret Thatcher | A Hong Kong news anchor | ||
| When watching the video tape of Maggie talking about her childhood, where does Rick the cameraman point the overhead projector in John’s apartment | |||
| The white interior wall of the living room | On a small screen in the kitchen area | ||
| On John’s face sitting against bedroom wall | On a canvas in the basement studio | ||
| What does William remember of the high-school romantic relationship that Maggie says she had had with him and describes vividly to John? | |||
| Only that he had a date with her | Only that they broke up upon graduation | ||
| Only that his father didn’t tolerate it | Nothing | ||