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(1) What year did Jaws come out?
(2) What species are the shark caught which turns out to be a red herring, and the killer shark? (Two Marks)
(3) Where does the film take place? (Two marks - for place name, and region)
(4) What event is the film centred around time-wise? (Two Marks)
(5) Who is the Shark's first victim, and under what circumstances is he or she taken? (Two Marks)
(6) What is the skipper hired to catch the Shark called, how much is he due to be paid for doing so, what disaster left him mentally scarred and presumably determined his current career, and what is the name of his vessel? (Four Marks)
(7) Who goes with him, and what institutions are they from? (Four Marks)
(8) One of the crew has a weakness pertinent to their mission. What are the weakness and its origin, and who has it? (Three Marks)
(9) Why does the boat sink? (Five Marks)
(10) How is the Shark found, weakened and killed? (Seven Marks)
(1) 1975
(2) Tiger Shark and Great White Shark
(3) Amity Island (and the sea off it), in the north-eastern USA. The state is not made explicit, and is to some degree debatable.
(4) The annual regatta, beginning on the Fourth of July weekend (Friday the 4th to Thursday the 10th).
(5) Chrissie Watkins is at a late-night beach party of young people. Tom Cassidy approaches her, and she runs off to the beach away from the party, inviting him to follow. He does, and she disrobes and enters the sea. However Tom is so drunk he struggles to remove his clothes, lies down and falls asleep, and the Shark kills Chrissie unnoticed.
(6) Quint; $10,000 (~$60,000 today); the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in WW2 and attacks on survivors by sharks; Orca
(7) Chief of Amity Police Martin Brody, and Matthew Hooper, a marine biologist from The Oceanographic Institute
(8) Brody has aquaphobia, induced by nearly drowning in childhood.
(9)(a) The Shark repeatedly rams it, causing it to take on water.
(b) Later the barrels the Shark is towing surface near the boat, and the crew tie their lines to the stern cleats. The Shark swims away, towing the boat astern, causing more water to come aboard.
(c) The Shark leaps across the transom, breaking it down.
They weren't able to beach the boat because the engine broke down due to
(d) water damage
(e) being redlined while damaged
- this would also mean that the bilge pump would not work.
(10)(a) Lured with chum
(b) Shot with harpoons with barrels tied to them
(c) One of the barrels had a tracking device attached.
(d) Shot at with rifle (probably not hit)
(e) Shot with pistol
(f) Stabbed with machete
(g) SCUBA cylinder in its mouth shot with rifle, making it explode
(2) Tiger Shark and Great White Shark
(3) Amity Island (and the sea off it), in the north-eastern USA. The state is not made explicit, and is to some degree debatable.
(4) The annual regatta, beginning on the Fourth of July weekend (Friday the 4th to Thursday the 10th).
(5) Chrissie Watkins is at a late-night beach party of young people. Tom Cassidy approaches her, and she runs off to the beach away from the party, inviting him to follow. He does, and she disrobes and enters the sea. However Tom is so drunk he struggles to remove his clothes, lies down and falls asleep, and the Shark kills Chrissie unnoticed.
(6) Quint; $10,000 (~$60,000 today); the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in WW2 and attacks on survivors by sharks; Orca
(7) Chief of Amity Police Martin Brody, and Matthew Hooper, a marine biologist from The Oceanographic Institute
(8) Brody has aquaphobia, induced by nearly drowning in childhood.
(9)(a) The Shark repeatedly rams it, causing it to take on water.
(b) Later the barrels the Shark is towing surface near the boat, and the crew tie their lines to the stern cleats. The Shark swims away, towing the boat astern, causing more water to come aboard.
(c) The Shark leaps across the transom, breaking it down.
They weren't able to beach the boat because the engine broke down due to
(d) water damage
(e) being redlined while damaged
- this would also mean that the bilge pump would not work.
(10)(a) Lured with chum
(b) Shot with harpoons with barrels tied to them
(c) One of the barrels had a tracking device attached.
(d) Shot at with rifle (probably not hit)
(e) Shot with pistol
(f) Stabbed with machete
(g) SCUBA cylinder in its mouth shot with rifle, making it explode
The pass mark is 16/32. How did you do?
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