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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(b) Violence was removed.
(c) The films became morality tales.
(d) Gangster films were banned.

2. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?
(a) The films should be longer.
(b) Cameras could be operated by one man.
(c) Reels could be cut together.
(d) Filming the weather was not intriguing enough for audiences.

3. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?
(a) Travel.
(b) Actor's biographies.
(c) Religious.
(d) War.

4. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?
(a) The stories were presented in serial format.
(b) The audiences did not need to follow a plot.
(c) The tabloid era had begun.
(d) The actors all had scandalous lives.

5. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Radio.
(c) Television.
(d) Telegraph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

2. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?

3. Which of the following was not one of the Little Three in the Golden Age of the Studio?

4. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?

5. For what company did Griffith work?

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