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The Missing Questions

As you watch The Missing listen/look for answers to the following questions. Some of the questions have specific, concrete answers from the film, others ask for your opinion or interpretation.

  1. Based on what you see in the scene in which the old woman's tooth gets pulled, write three adjectives to describe Maggie and three adjectives to describe Dot.

  2. Based on what you see in the movie, what is a healer?

  3. What is the Indian's name?

  4. Who is Emiliano?

  5. Why does Maggie hate her father?

  6. Why can't the Indian eat rabbit?

  7. What does the Indian try to give Maggie?

  8. Maggie worries when her family does not come home on time, but how does she first know something has gone wrong?

  9. What has gone wrong?

  10. Why does the Indian go back to Maggie's ranch?

  11. Did Maggie ever marry?

  12. Is the Army going to help Maggie find her daughter?

  13. Why won't maggie let Dot were the moccasins?

  14. What happens are Maggie, Dot and the Indian try to get through the canyon in a storm?

  15. Lilly tries to escape her captors. Is she succesful, why or why not?

  16. Why did the Indian find Maggie and her children in the first place (before Lilly got kidnapped)?

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  18. Maggie, Dot & the Indian have an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the group of kidnappers. Does their attack work? Why or why not?

  19. The kidnappers chase Maggie, Dot & the Indian. Do the kidnappers catch them?

  20. How does Maggie treat the injured Indian?

  21. What makes Maggie sick?

  22. How do the people with Maggie treat her illness? Does it work?

  23. Why does Maggie give Kayitah her cross on a necklace?

  24. When the brujo is talking to Maggie's father, the brujo talks about two animals "fighting" inside him. What are the animals?  According to the brujo which animal will win the fight?

  25. Does Maggie's father return to her?  If so, how?

  26. What does Maggie tell her father she does not know how to do?

  27. Who is the "ghost indian"?

  28. What does Maggie's father's Indian name translate into in English?

  29. Why did the Chiricahua give him this name?

  30. At the beginning of the movie, Maggie hated her father. Is this still the case? Exaplin your answer.

  31. Are you satisfied with the ending of this movie? Do you think the story ends well? Why?
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Last updated:  November 5, 2003
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