The Newsreel Sequence in Citizen Kane

question 28

Multiple Choice

The newsreel sequence in Citizen Kane

• A) provides the only presentation of the events in Kane's life in chronological order.
• B) presents a brief version of narrative events in roughly the same order as in the film as a whole.
• C) summarizes events spectators have already seen in flashback and provides a crucial clue to the narrative's resolution.
• D) finally gives the spectator an explanation of Kane's mysterious final word, "Rosebud."

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