Kissed by the Spider Woman Trivia Quiz

Answer: World War II--France

The movie tells the story of a cabaret singer in Paris, who gets involved with the French Resistance during the war and falls in love with a Nazi officer. It subtly mirrors the plot of the actual film.

Answer: False

He immediately identifies it as an anti-Semitic movie made by the Nazis and doesn't really care for it. He allows Molina to continue telling it because there's nothing else to do and he is curious about how it ends.

Answer: Manuel Puig

Puig was an Argentine author who died in 1990. The book is written completely in dialogue and contains no speech markers to indicate who is talking.

Answer: They're poisoned by the prison food.

The prison warden originally intends for only Valentin to be poisoned, so that the prison guards can make him give up information about the revolution. Molina ends up having to eat the poisoned food, so the warden tries again to poison Valentin, with success.

Answer: woman

This is why he feels that his world will be empty once he's released from prison. He believes that there is no man out there who will love him as if he were a woman.

Answer: Wine

Molina says that all the food is from his mother. The warden actually brings the food for him in exchange for Molina agreeing to try to find out information about the revolutionaries from Valentin. Molina gives most of the food to Valentin so that the latter can recover from his illness and beatings. They get chickens, tea, chocolates, and peaches, but no wine.

Answer: Taking nonsense from no one and respecting others

The most important thing to him is not degrading others--everyone must be treated with respect. Just before Molina leaves prison, Valentin tells him to never let anyone humilate him, for nobody has the right to treat anyone else badly.

Answer: He wants Molina to lead the police to the revolutionaries.

The police track Molina's moves, including when he decides to meet Valentin's friends and give them a message. Sadly, things don't end well for Luis--he's killed by Valentin's friends because they think he's trying to lead the cops to them.

Answer: Marta

Though Lydia is his current girlfriend, Valentin thinks of his old girlfriend, Marta, when things get bad. She takes him out of the prison and to the island where the Spider Woman story takes place.

Answer: Leni is killed by a man from the Resistance.

The man shoots her after she stabs him with a dinner knife. Molina compares himself to Leni at one point. They both die for revolutionary causes.