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Gigi (from the story by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1873-1954) 20 Qestions

1. The film is taken from one of Colette's last works (1945). Like several of her novels, it deals with France during La Belle Epoque. It was made into a musical in the U.S. and the music and lyrics are by the same people who did My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot, namely

a) Rogers & Hammerstein b) Lerner & Lowe c) George & Ira Gerschwin

d) Bernstein, Comden & Green

2. Gigi tells the story of a young girl a) who lives on the Cote d'Azur b) who is very ugly

c) who is very studious d) who does not want to follow the family trade

3. Throughout the film Gigi is played by the same actress, although she ages about 5 years in the course of the story. The actress was the dancer

a) Cid Charisse b) Leslie Caron c) Vera-Ellen d) Audrey Hepburn

4. When the story starts Gigi is supposed to be about how old?

a) 12-15 b) 8-12 c) 15-18 d) 19-20

5. As a little girl she is a) very prim and proper b) a terrible tomboy

c) very sad and romantic d) religious, she wants to be a nun

6. Gigi's mother had been a failure! She had not wished to follow the family trade either and so she had become a singer in the chorus at the opera. Even worse, she had

a) run away to America b) married a poor singer and had Gigi

c) lost all her money d) had a large number of children

7. The grandmother, mother, and Gigi, however, do not appear to be poor. The signs of their "lack of success" are that

a) they live in the suburbs, and in Paris successful people always live in the center of town

b) their house is very homey and comfortable, not "elegant" and decorated with Louis Quinze chairs and tables, such as the haute bourgeoisie have

c) Gigi has gone to school with lower middle class girls, not to a school for aristocratic young ladies

d) all of the above

8. The real success in Gigi's family is her a) grandmother b) uncle c) great-aunt d) sister

9. Maurice Chevalier was a famous stage star when he was young and handsome, and a movie star in Hollywood in the 1930s, and he became famous again when he made this film in the 1950s (when he was already in his seventies). One song that he sang in the film became very popular and is being currently used for a TV ad even now, it is

a) Get me to the church on time b) Thank heaven for little girls

c) Getting to know you d) With a little bit of luck

10. The old roué is happy with life, but Gaston, a rich young nobleman is not so happy. He thinks the life of the rich and famous is a bore. The only time the young man says he enjoys himself is when he visits Gigi's house. There he a) he can really relax

b) plays cards, eats Gigi's grandmother's cooking, and laughs a lot

c) doesn't have to behave according to certain norms expected of the rich and famous

d) all of the above

11. Gigi and her grandmother spend a wonderful weekend at Deauville on the beach with Gaston and they run into the old roué. It is obvious that

a) the grandmother and the old man were once lovers

b) the grandmother left her lover, and he thought she loved someone else

c) the real reason she left him was so she would not get hurt when he (eventually) left her, as was likely to happen

d) all of the above

d) very high-flying prostitutes

13. Gigi's grandmother's sister had lovers who a) were artists b) were very handsome

c) were very, very rich and powerful and made her rich too d) all of the above

14. The aunt is a) very caring b) very romantic

c) totally materialistic and calculating, as hard as nails d) a and b

15. It is decided that great-aunt will train Gigi in the family profession. At first, Gigi shows no talent for the skills she has to learn, but eventually she becomes very proficient at

a) knowing what to order in a restaurant and how to eat it properly

b) dressing in perfect style, talking about the things she is supposed to know, and sounding very sophisticated

c) knowing exactly what is supposed to attract rich and powerful men

d) all of the above

16. Unfortunately, Gigi is in love with Gaston, and though she does not wish to become his mistress, she decides that a) she loves him too much to reject him

b) she will go through with what she is expected to do because she loves him

c) she understands what the world she lives in is like and that she will probably suffer a great deal because she is unlike her great-aunt in temperament

d) all of the above

17. Gigi makes her entrance into what was called the "demi-monde" (half-world) in 1900 Paris. This world was made up of rich and powerful men from European royalty, the nobility, the world of politics and commerce, and they interacted with people connected with the stage, with horse racing, with successful artists and writers, and with the grandes horizontales (who were sometimes actresses). Rich and powerful men like Gaston customarily married women from the "haute monde" (high world/high society), and although a few, daring or intellectual high-class women mingled in both worlds, usually women from the "haute monde" lived quietly and expensively. 100 years after the French revolution, the haute monde consisted of

a) powerful families ennobled after the revolution and very rich foreigners (often Americans)

b) members of old families that had allied themselves with the new rich

c) old families that kept to themselves, avoided publicity, and were never heard about

d) all of the above

17. Gaston, on hearing the old man's remarks about Gigi a) leaves Paris

b) is delighted at the way things are turning out

c) wants to show off his new acquisition to everyone

d) starts to feel guilty about the whole forthcoming affair with Gigi

18. Gaston also realizes that what he feels for Gigi is love; he knows her too well as a person to go on with the affair as it is, since what is involved in a relationship with a "demi-mondaine" is primarily a) a show of power play and flaunting of possession of commodities

b) an expression of high passion c) a way of showing one has deep sentiments

d) a means of spending one's money

19. Gaston goes to Gigi's house and astonishes everyone because he

a) refuses to have anything to do with Gigi

b) complains that he has been taken advantage of

c) formally asks Gigi's grandmother for Gigi's hand in marriage as if Gigi were a girl of "good bourgeoise family" and not a demi-mondaine

d) all of the above

20. The film ends with the same scene as the beginning. Now there are "yuppy" areas scattered through Paris, but this place was very fashionable around the turn of the last century; it is near the race track, near the XVIth arrondissement, which was becoming the in-place to live around 1900. We see Gaston and Gigi in the a) Tuileries Gardens b) Luxembourg Gardens

c) Bois de Vincennes d) Bois de Boulogne