Hello. Would you like to test your knowledge of Inception? Here’s the quiz. It features 50 questions with four options each. Only one answer is correct. The questions are randomized. You can find your results and a Reset button at the bottom. Some time ago, I posted my analysis of the film here.
1. Who is Cobb?
An engineer
Saito's partner
A skilled dream extractor
A CIA undercover agent
2. Who is Mal?
Saito's wife
Cobb's wife
Eames' girlfriend
Cobb's sister
3. What happened to Mal?
She died in limbo
She was killed
She took her own life
It's not shown
4. What is limbo?
The deepest layer of the subconscious
The deepest layer of the conscious
A lucid dream
The part of the brain responsible for rendering dreams
5. What is "Mr. Charles"?
Cobb's first extraction victim
A trick used to turn the target against their own subconscious
A code name for the inception mission
A device used to stabilize dreams
6. What is Inception?
Extracting information from a mind
Killing a belief in a mind
Cleansing a mind
Seeding an idea in a mind
7. What is the difference between a lucid dream and an ordinary dream?
The dream's landscape
The number of people involved
The degree of awareness
There's no difference
8. Who is Cobb's employer?
Saito
Fischer
Eames
Browning
9. What makes Cobb's totem different?
It behaves differently in reality than in a dream
It behaves differently in a dream than in reality
It behaves the same in both
There's no difference
10. Who was Cobb's previous employer?
It's not stated
Cobol Engineering
Fischer Morrow
Cobol Industrial
11. What was the freight train doing on the city street?
Ariadne's surprise
Arthur's trick
Ariadne's mistake
A projection of Cobb's subconscious
12. Who is Ariadne?
A skilled engineer
A forger
A talented dream architect
The operation manager
13. What is a projection?
The codename for the operation
A person's double in a dream
A visual manifestation of the dreamer's subconscious
A person's foe in a dream
14. What is Cobb afraid of during the mission?
Mal's projection
Ariadne's mistake
Eames' mistake
Saito's behavior
15. Did Cobb and Saito manage to escape limbo?
This question is open to interpretation
Yes
Nope
Limbo?
16. What did Cobb do to Mal?
Extraction
Theft
Deception
Inception
17. Where does time run more slowly?
In an upper dream layer
In a middle dream layer
In a lower dream layer
Time is constant
18. What device is used for dream sharing?
19. What is a totem?
The codename for the Inception mission
An object used to distinguish reality from a dream
An object used to wake someone up
A tool required for dream sharing
20. What is the difference between conscious and subconscious?
They are the same
The degree of anger
The degree of joy
The degree of awareness
21. Why are multiple dream layers necessary for the main mission?
It was Saito's requirement
It was recommended by Ariadne
Inception requires the idea to be planted deeply
To make the dream more stable
22. Who is Maurice Fischer?
Saito's rival and owner of Fischer Morrow
Cobb's former employer
Cobb's current employer
Cobb's rival
23. Why did Saito fall into limbo?
He died in real life
He was sent there by Cobb
He died in a dream while sedated
He was captured by Mal
24. What is Ariadne's totem?
A spinning top
A red die
A ring
A chess bishop
25. Who's Peter Browning?
Cobb's partner
Robert Fischer's godfather
Eames' friend
Ariadne's colleague
26. What is the goal of the main mission?
Inception on Robert Fischer
Inception on Maurice Fischer
Extracting secrets from Robert Fischer
Extracting secrets from Peter Browning
27. Why was a plane flight chosen for the mission?
It was required by Saito
It was required by Cobb
For no specific reason
It provided a long period of time with access to Fischer
28. Why are multi-layered dreams so dangerous?
These involve numerous trained projections
The dream stability is too weak
They are not dangerous
They can be life-threatening
29. Why wasn't Cobb allowed to create mazes?
He lacked the necessary experience
Mal's projection could compromise them
It's too complicated for him
It was Saito's requirement
30. Who's Yusuf?
Cobb's pal
Saito's contact
A chemist who develops sedatives
A dream architect
31. Who's Eames?
A skilled architect
A scientist
An explosives specialist
A skilled dream forger
32. What is the zero-gravity effect?
A specific dream layer
A state caused by the dreamer's body being in free-fall
A result of falling within a dream
The codename for the mission
33. What did the team fail to take into account?
Fischer's mind was trained against invasion
The relationship between Fischer and his father
The difference between Maurice and his brother
Ariadne's lack of experience
34. How can a person wake themselves up?
By dying in the dream
By jumping into water
By killing their enemy
By listening to specific music
35. What made the mission so difficult?
Saito's prerequisites
The relationship between Fischer and his father
The complexity of the inception itself
Ariadne's incompetence
36. Who compromised the operation?
Eames
Arthur
Ariadne
Mal's projection
37. Why did they need to involve Peter Browning?
To kill Robert's father
To change Robert's perception of his father
To capture Mal
It was demanded by Saito
38. What is the purpose of the first dream layer?
To train Ariadne
To extract the necessary information from Fischer
To pick up Yusuf
To kidnap Fischer and introduce his conflict with Browning
39. What is the purpose of the second dream layer?
To turn Fischer against his father
To turn Fischer against Browning
To make Fischer vulnerable to extraction
To compromise Fischer
40. How much time did Cobb and Mal spend in limbo?
50 months
2 years
50 years
10 years
41. Why did Arthur blow up the elevator in the hotel?
Always wondered why he did it
To trigger a kick in a zero-gravity environment
He wanted to destroy the building
He was tasked to compromise the mission
42. Why did Mal take Fischer as a hostage in limbo?
To lure Cobb there and make him stay with her
She wanted him to die
She was tasked to compromise the mission
She wanted to escape from there
43. Why did Mal's projection not appear in the first two layers?
Mal didn't want to disturb him there
Cobb forbade her
It's not explained
Because Cobb didn't know the layout of the mazes
44. Why did Fischer fall into limbo?
He wanted to go there
Cobb sent him there
He was shot by Mal
He didn't actually
45. Why did Saito age so quickly in limbo?
In limbo, time is heavily expanded
He was injured there
He lost his totem
The movie doesn't explain it
46. What are the numbers 5 2 8 4 9 1?
A series of random numbers
The combination to the safe used for inception
The code to a hotel room
Numbers Saito wrote for Cobb
47. Who was the dreamer for the second dream level (hotel)?
Saito
Ariadne
Arthur
Yusuf
48. What is the third dream layer?
A hotel
A snow fortress
A city
A beach
49. Who's Saito?
Cobb's partner
A businessman who sponsored Cobb's work
A Japanese businessman interested in splitting up Fischer Morrow
A partner of Maurice Fischer
50. What did Saito promise Cobb?
To reward him with $100M
To help cure his wife
It's not stated in the movie
To clear his criminal records