1. What was Erich von Stroheim’s birth name?
A) Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim
B) Erich Oswald Stroheim
C) Hans Erich Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall
D) Erich von Nordenwall
Answer: B) Erich Oswald Stroheim
2. In which city was Erich von Stroheim born?
A) Vienna, Austria
B) Berlin, Germany
C) Prague, Czech Republic
D) Paris, France
Answer: A) Vienna, Austria
3. What was the profession of Erich von Stroheim’s father?
A) Military officer
B) Hatmaker
C) Film director
D) Aristocrat
Answer: B) Hatmaker
4. What year did Erich von Stroheim emigrate to the United States?
A) 1906
B) 1909
C) 1912
D) 1915
Answer: B) 1909
5. Which ship did Stroheim take to arrive at Ellis Island?
A) SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
B) SS Lusitania
C) SS Titanic
D) SS Kaiser Wilhelm
Answer: A) SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
6. What false claim did Stroheim make upon arriving in the U.S.?
A) He was a famous actor
B) He was a count and son of Austrian nobility
C) He was a decorated war hero
D) He was a wealthy businessman
Answer: B) He was a count and son of Austrian nobility
7. What was Stroheim’s first job in the U.S.?
A) Actor
B) Film director
C) Traveling salesman
D) Military advisor
Answer: C) Traveling salesman
8. Which director did Stroheim work with early in his Hollywood career?
A) D.W. Griffith
B) Cecil B. DeMille
C) Charlie Chaplin
D) Buster Keaton
Answer: A) D.W. Griffith
9. In which film did Stroheim play an uncredited role as a Pharisee?
A) The Birth of a Nation
B) Intolerance
C) Broken Blossoms
D) Way Down East
Answer: B) Intolerance
10. During World War I, what type of roles did Stroheim often play?
A) Romantic leads
B) Heroic soldiers
C) Comedic sidekicks
D) Sadistic German officers
Answer: D) Sadistic German officers
11. What was the slogan, producers created for Stroheim as an actor?
A) The Man of Mystery
B) The Man You Love to Hate
C) The Silent Star
D) The Austrian Hero
Answer: B) The Man You Love to Hate
12. Which was Stroheim’s first independently directed film?
A) Blind Husbands
B) Foolish Wives
C) Greed
D) The Merry Widow
Answer: A) Blind Husbands
13. What theme did Blind Husbands (1919) explore?
A) The horrors of war
B) The rise of technology
C) Postwar morality and love outside marriage
D) Political corruption
Answer: C) Postwar morality and love outside marriage
14. Which Stroheim film is considered a landmark in film realism?
A) The Wedding March
B) Greed
C) Queen Kelly
D) The Merry Widow
Answer: B) Greed
15. What novel was Stroheim’s film Greed (1924) based on?
A) McTeague by Frank Norris
B) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
C) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Answer: A) McTeague by Frank Norris
16. What was the original runtime of Greed before it was cut?
A) 4 hours
B) 6 hours
C) 9 hours
D) 12 hours
Answer: C) 9 hours
17. Who cut Greed from 9 hours to 140 minutes without Stroheim’s approval?
A) D.W. Griffith
B) Studio executives
C) Irving Thalberg
D) Gloria Swanson
Answer: B) Studio executives
18. Which Stroheim film was the first to reportedly cost $1 million?
A) Foolish Wives
B) Blind Husbands
C) The Wedding March
D) Queen Kelly
Answer: A) Foolish Wives
19. Why was Stroheim fired during the filming of Merry-Go-Round (1923)?
A) Creative differences with actors
B) Running behind schedule
C) Refusing to follow the script
D) Health issues
Answer: B) Running behind schedule
20. Which Stroheim film was a commercial success despite his extravagance?
A) The Merry Widow
B) Greed
C) Foolish Wives
D) The Devil’s Passkey
Answer: A) The Merry Widow
21. Who replaced Stroheim as director on Merry-Go-Round?
A) Rupert Julian
B) King Vidor
C) Josef von Sternberg
D) John Emerson
Answer: A) Rupert Julian
22. What ended Stroheim’s Hollywood directing career?
A) Lack of talent
B) Extravagance and insistence on artistic freedom
C) Moving to Europe permanently
D) A public scandal
Answer: B) Extravagance and insistence on artistic freedom
23. In which French film did Stroheim play a prison-camp commandant?
A) La Grande Illusion
B) The Rules of the Game
C) Children of Paradise
D) Beauty and the Beast
Answer: A) La Grande Illusion
24. For which film did Stroheim receive an Academy Award nomination?
A) Five Graves to Cairo
B) Sunset Boulevard
C) La Grande Illusion
D) The Lost Squadron
Answer: B) Sunset Boulevard
25. In Sunset Boulevard, what role did Stroheim play?
A) A film director
B) A butler
C) A screenwriter
D) A producer
Answer: B) A butler