Answers to The Tenth Man Quiz Questions
1. thirty men are rounded up by the gestapo and when, after an incident, no culprit is identified, every tenth man is to be executed at random.
2. He pleads for a volunteer to die in his place, and Michel, Thérèse's brother, offers to die in his place in order to give his mother and sister a great home in which to live.
3. The question is from Thérèse when Chavel comes to her door; he says he is looking for a meal and gives a false name to her
4. Michel, her dear brother
5. she had a pain in her chest (which she felt at night, although Michel died at dawn)
6. she hopes he can identify Chavel for her
7. rubbing her hands after the long walk with the provisions; balancing the groceries on her leg (we all do these things, but how often do we see them in film?)
8. her "hate" (not that she's lost her faith)
9. spectacles
10. his handwriting on the grocery list "like when you think you've been somewhere before" as Thérèse says (she has seen the documents of transfer on the house)
11. a gun (with which to shoot Chavel when he arrives, "when that bell starts to jangle")
12. "There hasn't been a rat in here for three years."
13. she can't sleep (like Annie in The Horse Whisperer)
14. "You'll be off--back to your own sort, find some job and a girl who works in the civil service, knows about things. . . ."
15. something about human contact (notice how Thérèse beams during this scene, and she sings as she walks home with Jean)
16. dancing, kissing; in love, love; and Jean replies "I suppose they expressed it just like you and me."
17. When an imposter arrives posing as Chavel, Thérèse spits in his face, as Lady Anne spat in the face of Richard at the morgue after her husband's death by his hand; the man pretending to be Chavel notes in a later scene with Jean that Lady Anne had a change of heart with Richard
18. Of Thérèse, he says "she'll have to move out" (or Jean will); Thérèse is "very young you know, simple sort of person . . . she's in a state now when she might do something foolish"
19. He puts his arms across Thérèse's breasts on the staircase
20. Wouldn't we all be prepared to die for an actress who has given us so many magical cinematic moments?
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