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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?
(a) Story lines.
(b) Studios.
(c) Independent films.
(d) Star power.

2. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Gangster films were banned.
(b) The films became morality tales.
(c) Violence was removed.
(d) Women were not allowed behind the camera.

3. How large was the tax on foreign film earning in Britain after World War II?
(a) 45%.
(b) 55%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 65%.

4. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?
(a) Theater of the Absurd.
(b) Theater of Cruelty.
(c) Brechtian.
(d) Expressionism.

5. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?
(a) The seventies.
(b) The sixites.
(c) The fifties.
(d) The forties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?

2. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?

3. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?

4. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?

5. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?

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