Q 01/05

Ang Lee was raised in which Taiwanese city, where his father was a school principal and where he says he spent the happiest eight years of his life?

A) Kaohsiung

B) Hualien

C) Taipei

D) Tainan

Answer · why

B) Hualien

He was born in Pingtung County in 1954 to a family that had come from mainland China in 1949.

Q 02/05

Which Ingmar Bergman film was a formative experience for the young Ang Lee?

A) The Seventh Seal

B) Cries and Whispers

C) Wild Strawberries

D) The Virgin Spring

Answer · why

D) The Virgin Spring

He had failed Taiwan's university entrance exam twice before entering the National Arts School.

Q 03/05

Lee earned his BFA in theatre in 1980 at which American institution?

A) NYU in Manhattan

B) Columbia in New York

C) UCLA in Los Angeles

D) Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Answer · why

D) Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

He wanted to act but his English held him back, so he turned to directing; he met his wife Jane Lin there.

Q 04/05

At NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Lee worked on the thesis film of which classmate?

A) Spike Lee

B) Jim Jarmusch

C) Oliver Stone

D) Martin Scorsese

Answer · why

A) Spike Lee

The film was Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads.

Q 05/05

After graduating from NYU in 1985, how did Lee spend the six years before his first feature?

A) Working as an agent for William Morris

B) As a stay-at-home father supported by his wife

C) Editing television commercials in New York

D) Teaching film theory in Taipei

Answer · why

B) As a stay-at-home father supported by his wife

Jane Lin, a microbiologist, supported the family while he wrote screenplays.