Spirited Away

Question 1

What is the name of the protagonist?

Answer 1

Chihiro.

Question 2

What does the movie open on?

Answer 2

A bouquet of roses from a classmate with a note attached well-wishing Chihiro on her move.

Question 3

What happens to the family on the way to their new house?

Answer 3

They take a wrong turn and come upon a tunnel with a statue in front of it that leads them to what looks like an abandoned amusement park with many restaurants.

Question 4

What happens to Chihiro’s parents?

Answer 4

They to stop eat a buffet and are turned into pigs.

Question 5

What does Chihiro find after exploring further?

Answer 5

A bathhouse frequented by spirits.

Question 6

What is the name of the boy who looks after Chihiro after she finds the bathhouse?

Answer 6

Master Haku.

Question 7

What does Master Haku give to Chihiro to help her and why?

Answer 7

A berry so she doesn’t disappear from the world.

Question 8

What does Master Haku tell Chihiro to do when crossing the bridge and why?

Answer 8

To hold her breath or else it will break the invisibility spell he’s cast on her.

Question 9

What does Master Haku tell Chihiro to do after they cross the bridge?

Answer 9

To go to the boiler room and ask for a job.

Question 10

What is the name of the man who runs the boiler room?

Answer 10

Kamaji.

Question 11

How many arms and legs does Kamaji have?

Answer 11

Six.

Question 12

How does Kamaji keep the furnace fire heated?

Answer 12

He casts a spell on balls of soot and they carry pieces of coal into it.

Question 13

What does Kamaji do when Chihiro asks for a job?

Answer 13

He declines her and sends her off with a worker to ask the bath house manager for a job.

Question 14

What is the name of this worker and how does Kamaji convince her to do what he asks?

Answer 14

Her name is Lin and he gives her a roasted newt.

Question 15

Who is the bathhouse manager?

Answer 15

A witch named Yubaba.

Question 16

What is Yubaba’s oath?

Answer 16

She has to give a job to anyone that asks.

Question 17

How does Yubaba control people?

Answer 17

By stealing their name.

Question 18

What interrupts Yubaba when Chihiro is asking for a job?

Answer 18

Her large baby.

Question 19

What happens if someone completely forgets their name?

Answer 19

They won’t ever get home.

Question 20

What does Yubaba rename Chihiro?

Answer 20

Sen.

Question 21

What does Master Haku turn into when he leaves Chihiro?

Answer 21

A dragon.

Question 22

How does Chihiro help the stink spirit?

Answer 22

She frees it by pulling a thorn from it.

Question 23

How does the stink spirit show its gratitude?

Answer 23

By giving Chihiro a magic emetic dumpling.

Question 24

What is the stink spirit then revealed as?

Answer 24

A river spirit.

Question 25

How does no face help Chihiro when Lin sends her to the bath foreman?

Answer 25

He helps her get the herbal bath tokens.

Question 26

What is Haku being chased by when Chihiro sees him on the balcony?

Answer 26

Paper birds.

Question 27

Where does Haku land after being injured?

Answer 27

Yubaba's apartment.

Question 28

Who is chasing after him and why?

Answer 28

Yubaba's sister Zeniba because he stole a gold seal from her.

Question 29

How is Zeniba defeated?

Answer 29

Haku awakens and smashes the paper bird.

Question 30

What does Chihiro give Haku and what does he spit up?

Answer 30

Part of the magic emetic dumpling which makes him spit up Zeniba's gold seal and a black slug.

Question 31

Who does she give the other part of the magic emetic dumpling to?

Answer 31

To no-face to make him spit up the workers he ate.

Question 32

What is this black slug?

Answer 32

It was placed inside of Haku by Yubaba so that she could control him.

Question 33

What does the boiler-room man (Kamaji) give to Chihiro and why?

Answer 33

Train tickets to Zeniba's house so she can return the gold seal and ask for help with her parents.

Question 34

Where does Zeniba live?

Answer 34

Swamp Bottom.

Question 35

What stop on the train is it?

Answer 35

Sixth.

Question 36

Why did Haku become Yubaba's apprentice?

Answer 36

To steal her magic secrets.

Question 37

What broke Zeniba's spell on Haku?

Answer 37

The true love between he and Chihiro.

Question 38

What does Zeniba do to Yubaba's baby and pet bird?

Answer 38

She turns the baby into a mouse and the bird into a fly.

Question 39

What does Zeniba tell Chihiro to call her?

Answer 39

Granny.

Question 40

What is Haku's true identity?

Answer 40

He is the spirit of the Kohaku river.

Question 41

How had Haku encountered Chihiro in his previous form?

Answer 41

He saved her from drowning when she was swimming in the river.

Question 42

What is the last test that Yubaba gives Chihiro?

Answer 42

She asks her to identify her parents from a group of pigs and Chihiro correctly deduces that they're not there.

Question 43

What do no-face, the mouse and the fly make for Chihiro?

Answer 43

A magic hairband.

Question 44

What happens to no-face?

Answer 44

He stays with Zeniba to be her helper.