Once Were Warriors | 10 Question Movie Multiple Choice Quiz

Answer: A placid lake with mountains in the background

This peaceful image is actually on a billboard and stands in stark contrast to the actual environment in which the film is set. All of these images mentioned above appear in the opening credits as well as scenes introducing the other Heke children. Grace - the eldest daughter - is reading to the two youngest children, and Boogey - the second eldest son - is hanging out with his gang when police arrive.

Answer: Their own home

In this scene Beth and Jake switch abruptly from hugging and kissing to arguing, which is emblematic of their relationship. Although Jake presents losing his job as good news, Beth disagrees. When she raises the issue of saving for a house Jake replies, "We got a house, and the government ain't gonna kick us out.

The rent's cheap." Beth insists that she wants the family to have their own house, but Jake tells her to forget about it. As well as revealing a great deal about the relationship between Jake and Beth, this scene includes an exchange between Jake and his oldest son Nig which alerts us to the deep smouldering anger between them.

Answer: "Was that before or after you picked him up?"

Beth's reply and the attitude she takes towards the police throughout this scene are indicative not only of the hostility she feels towards the police, but also of her desire to protect her children. In particular, this is true of Boogey; as we hear her say in a later scene, she doesn't think Boogey is strong like the others.

Answer: His father is there.

Beth tells Nig there's plenty of booze and food, but Nig objects to staying home because of his father. Although Beth understands the fraught relationship between Jake and Nig, the discussion between her and Nig quickly escalates into an argument and she slaps him. Nig's growing sense of alienation from his family is clear.

He storms off and we assume that he joins members of the gang into which we subsequently see him being inducted. His induction requires that he take a fairly brutal beating from the gang members, after which he is told, "Now you can meet your new family."

Answer: Her face is bruised and swollen because Jake beat her up.

Distressed by her argument with Nig, Beth stands up to Jake when he tells her to cook more food for the guests, and Jake flies off the handle. He beats her savagely in what is a truly stomach-turning depiction of domestic violence. Although Beth had promised Boogey she would accompany him, her face is such a mess that she knows that her appearance would work against Boogey in court.

Unfortunately, the court places Boogey in the custody of social welfare.

Answer: Jake gets drunk and won't give Beth the keys.

Although Jake has a win on the horses and comes up with the money to hire a car, they never make it to see Boogey. The family spends the day driving around and have a fabulous time - a rare occurrence for the Heke family. Things start going wrong when Jake visits the pub for 'just one beer'. Predictably, one turns into an afternoon of drinking. Beth tries, unsuccessfully to get the keys off Jake so that the rest of the family can go without him, but in the end they get a taxi home, leaving Jake at the pub.

In the evening, Beth rings Boogey to apologise and protects him from the truth by telling him that they had a car accident.

Answer: He had raped her.

At an earlier party we see Grace obey the instruction to give Uncle Bully a kiss and later that night he comes into her bedroom and rapes her. Although she doesn't tell anyone about this, her mother notices a dramatic change in her daughter's behaviour. Following the rape, Grace absolutely refuses to kiss Uncle Bully and Jake becomes furious.

He throws Grace to the floor and rips up the exercise book in which she writes stories.

Answer: She wrote it down in her book of stories.

Almost every time we see Grace during the film she has an exercise book in her hands, and we hear a few of the stories she writes in it. The family consider her writing her special gift and it is certainly her escape. Although most of the stories in the book are fictitious, she also writes about her rape at the hand of Uncle Bully.

After the funeral, Beth is mending the book that Jake had torn up earlier in the film, and she finds Grace's account of the rape.

Answer: Boogey

All of these people are there by Grace's coffin, but it is Boogey who sings a Maori mourning song. During his stay at the boys' home he was schooled in Maori traditions and this scene, among others in the film, shows us how Boogey has internalised his cultural identity. Unlike Nig, who wears tattoos to celebrate his Maori heritage, Boogey tells us that he wears his 'on the inside'.

Answer: Beth

In this powerful closing speech Beth says, "Our people, once were warriors, but not like you Jake, they were people with mana, pride, people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything. Maybe you taught me that." She then gets into the car with her children, Jake hurling abuse at her.

In this final moment we see the strength of Beth as she takes her children 'home' (back to her people's ancestral land), leaving Jake a frustrated, angry, and ultimately lonely, man.