![]() Worksheet for PLEASANTVILLE
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MOVIE LABS Created by Sue August and TR Young: Apr., 1999 at the
Red Feather Institute: |
David - main male character from present
day ; Bud - David becomes Bud in Pleasantville
Jennifer- main female character from present day; Mary Sue- Jennifer becomes Mary Sue in
Pleasantville
George Jenkins - Bud and Mary’s father in Pleasantville; Betty Jenkins, Bud and
Mary’s mother in Pleasantville
Bill Johnson - Owner of the soda shop, Skip Martin - Mary Sue’s boyfriend in
Pleasantville
Margaret Henderson - Bud’s girlfriend in Pleasantville ,
The Mayor of Pleasantville
Directions: Fill in the correct answer on the Scantron: 1 point each. [Note to instructors: I usually put in 5 extra items for movie labs the first time I give them...since there may still be bugs in the teaching or the construction of it.]
1. In Pleasantville, Mary Sue/Jennifer
became:
*a. a good student b. a good
slut c. a good daughter
2. In Pleasantville, David/Bud becomes:
a. a good son *b. a wise young man
c. a television buff
3. In real life, there has been, in the
last four years:
a. a 20% increase in good jobs *b. a 31% decrease in
jobs
4. The major
concern of the men in Pleasantville was:
*a. family values
b. patriotism
c. rebellious youth
5. For which character was sexuality and
sensuality emancipated:
a. Mary Sue b. Bud
c. Bill
* d. Betty
6. For which character were the endpoints of
color and form extended:
a. Mary Sue b. Bud
*c. Bill
d. Betty
[Note to instructors: be sure to mention
Picasso's Sleeping/Weeping woman as case in point;
and some students select (b) Bud...you
can give 1/2 credit for that since he did help Bill a lot]]
7. When did George become colorized:
a. When he was firm with his wife about her duties
b. when he joined the Chamber of Commerce
*
c. When he realized that he missed his wife
8. How did Betty Jenkin’s view her
colorization at first:
a. as joyful emancipation *b. as stigma
c. as a illness
d. all of these
9. What were the class discussions in
Pleasantville school about:
a. homeless people b. sexually transmitted
disease * c. the geography of Main
Street
10. What kind of emancipation ruined
the basketball team:
a. political b. religious
*c. sexual
d. economic
11. What was the character of the division
of labor in Bill's Soda Shop:
a. social division b. gender division
*c. technical division
12. What was Bill's
first effort at emancipation on the job:
* a. putting lettuce on hamburgers b. painting nudes
on the window c. kissing Betty
13. Which music would be forbidden by the Code of Conduct:
a. Perry Como singing White Christmas
c. Johnny Mathis
singing about love
b. Jack Jones singing about Marriage
*d. Sarah Vaughn
singing 'At Last My Love Has Come Along'
14. Where did Betty first discover her own sexuality:
a. in conversation with Mary Sue
*b. in the bathtub
c. in the Soda Shop with Bill
15. The men were all in agreement that
they had to support the Code of Conduct. Which theoretical perspective in our text
would best be supported by that agreement about shared values:
*a. Structural-Functionalism
b. Marxist Theory c. Socialist-Feminist theory
16. Why did the tree burn:
a. the firemen couldn't put it out *b. Betty's
sexual energy ignited it c. it was hit by lightning during the storm.
17. what triggered Mary Sue's
coloration:
a*. reading b. making love
c. helping Bud d. all of
these
18. When did Bud become colorized:
a. when he was tempted by the apple
b. when he got a girl friend
*c. when he defended Betty
19. How did the town fathers
fight the collapse of their town:
a. segregating coloreds b. burning
books c. trashing the Soda Shop *d. all of
these
20. Colorization meant:
a. increase in status honor for women b.
decrease in power for men
*c.
expansion of the endpoints of happiness and despair
21. Which form of emancipation was the
focus of concern in the movie as a whole:
a. political b. economic
c. status
*d. sense and
sensibility
22. Many of the women supported the men in
their defense of patriarchy. Marx would refer to this support as:
*a. false consciousness b.
ideological hegemony c. alienation
23. What did the Code of Conduct try
to do:
a. bring peace *b.
restore order c. emancipate people
24. Where did emancipation take place:
a. in the streets *b. in the
town hall c. in the bowling alley
[note:
you can give 1/2 credit for (a)...or not use it]
25. What group lead the social
movement toward emancipation:
*a. young people b. men
c. women
d. town elders