Dr Strangelove Questions
Answer the following questions with complete sentences. Your answers should be typed and turned in with your essay.
1. What feel does the text and voice over at the start of the film create? How does the music during the credits reinforce or contradict that feeling?
2. What do the signs around the air base say?
3. What effect is created by the music and speech given by the B52 pilot?
4. Why the cigar for General Ripper? What might Ripper represent?
5. Describe General Turgidson. What might he represent?
6. How is the mass murder discussion ironic?
7. Why include the contents of the survival packs?
8. How is the President's conversation with Premier Kissoff ironic?
9. Why is the conversation between Ripper and Mandrake funny?
10. Compare the ironies of Attack Plan R and the doomsday device.
11. Why is Mandrake's high strung personality so funny? Why choose to make him
British?
12. Why are General Turgidson's facial expressions so funny?
13. What is so ironic about all the struggles of the B52 crew?
14. Which actor does a better job the President, Mandrake, or Strangelove? Why?

Dr. Strangelove Essay Assignment
The film is known for, among other things, its use of “unique” and strange characters.
Choose two of the characters from the film and explain what forms of characterization are used to convey to the audience who the character is, how the character is brought to
“life.” The essay should be four paragraphs long (one introductory paragraph, two body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph).