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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to the obliteration of the Production Code in the sixties, what type of films became popular in the seventies?
(a) Blaxploitation.
(b) Experimental.
(c) Horror.
(d) Pornography.

2. What political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?
(a) Watergate.
(b) Kennedy assassination.
(c) The fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) Ollie North's resignation.

3. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?
(a) Vincente Renoir.
(b) Marcel LeFever Renoir.
(c) Pierre Auguste Renoir.
(d) Jean Renoir I.

4. Which Eastern European country became a strong force in the international film community in the sixties?
(a) Russia.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Czechoslavakia.

5. What country nearly wiped out the French film industry after World War II?
(a) Germany.
(b) America.
(c) Britain.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?

2. Which of the following was not one of the most popular genres to emerge from Japan's film industry?

3. Who was the comedic French director that rose to prominence in the 1950s?

4. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

5. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?

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