Q 01/05

Which disease killed William Munny's wife before the events of Unforgiven?

A) Smallpox

B) Cholera

C) Consumption

D) Scarlet fever

Answer · why

A) Smallpox

Smallpox took her in 1878, the opening text says, adding that her mother had expected her to die at Munny's own hands instead.

Q 02/05

Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood's first Western since which film?

A) Joe Kidd

B) Bronco Billy

C) Pale Rider

D) Hang 'Em High

Answer · why

C) Pale Rider

Pale Rider came out seven years earlier, in 1985; Eastwood took an option on the Unforgiven script around then and let it wait for years.

Q 03/05

Which animals is William Munny struggling to raise on his Kansas farm as Unforgiven begins?

A) Sheep

B) Cattle

C) Chickens

D) Hogs

Answer · why

D) Hogs

Hogs, and they are dying of fever: Munny keeps falling in the mud of the pen as he tries to separate the sick animals from the healthy.

Q 04/05

Which actor plays Sheriff 'Little Bill' Daggett in Unforgiven?

A) Morgan Freeman

B) Gene Hackman

C) Richard Harris

D) Robert Duvall

Answer · why

B) Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman's sheriff keeps the peace by beating visiting gunmen senseless in the street, a performance that won him his second Oscar.

Q 05/05

Which actor plays Ned Logan, William Munny's old partner in Unforgiven?

A) Morgan Freeman

B) Danny Glover

C) Louis Gossett Jr.

D) Laurence Fishburne

Answer · why

A) Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman's Ned is a crack shot with a Spencer rifle who finds, when the moment comes, that he can no longer kill a man.