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1. Describe the scene where Elmer and Miss Bea try to get Delilah to sign the papers to incorporate the pancake business.

2. Describe how the film expresses the idea that a woman can't be a good business womanand have a romantic relationship and be a good mother all at the same time.

3. What do you think the director John Stahl intended to convey by having Jessie's last words be "I want my quack, quack"? What other scene does that recall?

4. Recall Delilah's reaction in the scene where Peola is upset because Jessie called her "black." How does Miss Bea react? How do the adults' reactions inform Peola's and Jessie's ideas about race? What feelings about race does Delilah express in the film and pass on to her daughter Peola?

5. What hope do you think Pauline Breedlove might have for her unborn baby when she names her after Peola in the movie? What attitudes towards race might Pauline Breedlove have passed on to her unborn daughter Pecola by giving her that name from the film?

6. How do Miss Bea and Delilah function as independent women? Notice how they are almost like a typical heterosexual married couple in the film. Give examples of why I might say that.

7. What is the moral value the film expresses? (Remember the use of values in essays, such as "killing is bad"? What might the value ne in this film?)

8. How does the plot change once Stephen Archer comes on the scene? Why doesn't Delilah get a love interest? Notice that Delilah dreams of a funeral the way young girls usually dream of weddings. Hers is the ultimate sacrifice for her daughter. By dying, she allows her daughter to "pass" forevermore.

9. Describe what happens in the scene in The Littlest Rebel when Shirley Temple hides in the closet.

10. How does the Yankee soldier treat Shirley Temple differently after she comes out of the closet? Why? Give one example of how black and white children are treated differently in the film The Littlest Rebel.