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L'EMIGRANTE

 WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN BOLD UNDER EACH RESPECTIVE QUESTION

1.      Who is Peppino Cavallo?

2.      What is Peppino’s job in Italy?

3.      Why did Peppino decide to go to America?

4.      What trick did he devise to get on the ship?

5. How is his disguise discovered on the ship?

6. What does Rosina do for a living?

7.      What is the name of the Mafia boss (old guy)?

8.      Where does Peppino meet the Anarchist the first time?

9.      Peppino is told his father died in what kind of accident?

10.  How did Peppino’s father really died?

11.  What is his job when he is all dressed up with top hat and a cigar?

12.  What is the job that Peppino gets and that infuriates Rosita?

13.  What did the anarchist sell out of desperation to survive?

14.  Was it really “pea soup?”

15.  And how did it taste?

16.  What was the anarchist’s dying wish?

17.  Why is Peppino put in prison? 

18.  How did Peppino managed to escape from prison?

19.  What does Pamela represent, symbolically?

20.  How are African Americans represented in the film? What roles do they have? Why?

21.  What is inside the big bass case that is loaded onto the ship?

SACCO and VANZETTI

1. In what State did they live?

2. The events narrated in the film took place in 19...... (fill the blank with the decade)

3. What was their political ideology?

4. What were Sacco and Vanzetti accused of?

5. What were the Palmer raids?

6. Which one of the two suffered a “nervous breakdown” in prison?

7. What kind of deal the governor offered them (this is historically inaccurate, but it’s another story.)

8. Was their case known outside America? Explain.

9. Did the story have a happy ending? Explain.

BONUS:

THE BIG QUESTION: both films present violent political protest almost as benign and justified by romantic dreams of social justice. But in our days we call those means simply “terrorism.” Church burnings, mass killings in synagogues and mosques are real and frequent events. Yet, terrorism is also the tactic of national liberation movements and successful revolutions against tyranny and oppression.

Is it possible to draw the line between “legitimate” violent protest, and execrable acts in the name of an ideology?

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