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1. 'In the Border States' (1910) shows a family whose patriarch joins the Union army. When he returns home wounded, pursued by Confederate soldiers, his two young daughters try to protect him, one of them locking herself inside the house with him as the other runs for help. A Confederate soldier eventually breaks through to the room where the father is hiding. The soldier spares the man's life, however, by covering him with a blanket and telling the other soldiers that he was already dead. Who could best be said to have caused this change of heart?
2. Many of Griffith's films were strikingly similar. 'The Lonedale Operator' (1911) and 'The Girl and Her Trust' (1912), for example, both depicted women who worked at train station-type buildings that were under assault of robbers. The women faithfully lock themselves into the innermost room to try to fend off the thieves. Then, without fail, they are saved by their sweethearts, who hear about their plight just in time. In 'The Lonedale Operator', the robbers actually break down the door and make their way into the room with the heroine, but she fends them off with what she presents as a gun. The punch line of this short film is the revelation of what she actually defended herself with. What was that?
3. Griffith hones his skills of social commentary with 'What Shall We Do with Our Old?' (1911). In it, an elderly man is told that his wife is sick and he is laid off from his carpentry job because of his age. Out of desperation, he steals some goods but is taken to jail for the crime. When the sympathetic judge released him with money to buy supplies for his home, he returns home. Does he find his wife dead?
4. The protagonist in 'For His Son' (1912) was a businessman with an extremely spoiled offspring. When he could no longer supply his son with what he considered a satisfactory stream of money, he hatched the very lucrative plan of creating a new soft drink laced with an addictive drug. What drug did he use?
5. 'The Female of the Species' (1912) is another example of Griffith's oh-so-progressive mindset. In it, three women are left to make their way across the desert to civilization. Unfortunately, one of them is convinced that another had an affair with her husband before he died and she is plagued by the consuming desire for revenge. At one point, they find an Indian woman, very recently dead, from whom they take something that brings the three women together and allows them to continue on their quest. What do they take from the dead woman?
6. In 'The House of Darkness' (1913), a patient from an insane asylum is calmed by the sound of piano music, then escapes to, coincidentally, break into the house of a doctor, where the wife is home with her pet. She finds herself being held captive and is forced at gunpoint to play the piano, which she does until she can recover the gun from the patient. What was the woman's pet?
7. 'The Birth of a Nation' (1915) was a huge step forward in cinema, with a duration of nearly three hours. The epic was both blasted by audiences and loved by them. It was protested for its racist views of history, but it was also the first major blockbuster movie. Around which war's battles and aftermath was this film set?
8. In 'The Birth of a Nation', Colonel Cameron, in the hospital during the war, was condemned to death for his war crimes. Who pardoned him?
9. In 'The Birth of a Nation', the youngest daughter of the Southern family meets an unfortunate end. How does she die?
10. What was the protective force that became prominent at the end of 'The Birth of a Nation', saving both Elsie and Dr. Cameron and family?
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