English (4.b) – Tomaš
Movie: Casablanca
6 November 2013
Name: _________________________________
a) Film Study
As you watch the film write the answer to each question in the space provided.
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Where does the story begin? ___________________________________________________
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What are the police searching for? _______________________________________________
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Who is the man in the white suit sitting alone? _____________________________________
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What does the little man ask Rick to hide for him? __________________________________
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Where does Rick stash what the little man asked him to hide? _________________________
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Who does Rick meet outside the club? ___________________________________________
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Who is Louie looking for? _____________________________________________________
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What makes Victor allow the man to sit down? ____________________________________
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What happens when Sam plays the song As Time Goes By for Ilsa? ____________________
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10. What does Rick do once the club is closed for the night? _____________________________
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11. In Rick’s flashback what happened between him and Ilsa? ___________________________
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12. Who comes in as Sam finished playing As Time Goes By for Rick? ____________________
13. What does Major Strasser ask Mr. Laszlo for? _____________________________________
14. What does Mr. Ferrari propose to Rick? __________________________________________
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15. What does Ferrari offer to Victor and Ilsa? ________________________________________
16. What does Ferrari tell Victor and Ilsa about Rick? __________________________________
17. What does the young woman ask Rick? __________________________________________
18. Why does Rick help the young man at the roulette table? _____________________________
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19. What does Rick tell Victor to do? _______________________________________________
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20. What does Major Strasser ask Captain Renault to do? _______________________________
21. Where does Ilsa go when Victor goes to the Underground meeting? ____________________
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22. What is the only cause Rick says he is interested in? ________________________________
23. What does Ilsa do when Rick refuses to give her the letters? __________________________
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English (4.b) – Tomaš
Movie: Casablanca
6 November 2013
24. What does Victor ask Rick to do? _______________________________________________
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25. What does Rick do when Captain Renault comes to arrest Victor? _____________________
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26. What happens to Major Strasser? _______________________________________________
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b) Language work
Define/explain the following terms:
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dossier
refugee
gravitate
prefect
distinguished
commodity
isolationism
understatement
abscond (with sth)
fundamental
linger
ransack
flatter
Briefly explain at least two of the famous quotes below:
“We’ll always have Paris.”
“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
“Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake.”
“…If we stop breathing, we’ll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”
“Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
c) Essay (Homework)
Choose ONE of the following essay topics and write a short essay (roughly half a page) for
homework.
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Discuss the change in Rick’s character.
Compare and contrast Rick and Captain Louis Renault.
Discuss Ilsa’s dilemma and how she came to have this problem
Forbidden love in the turmoil of World War II