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

2. What sort of performers were ideal candidates for comedy shorts in the 1920s?
(a) Shakespearean.
(b) Vaudeville.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Singers.

3. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?
(a) Fritz Lang.
(b) F.W. Murnau.
(c) Leni Reifenstahl.
(d) Max Ophuls.

4. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?
(a) Glass lantern.
(b) Rotoscope.
(c) Zoetrope.
(d) Rear projector.

5. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?
(a) Talented actors.
(b) Prohibition forced people into the theaters.
(c) Special effects and lighting.
(d) Cinematography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What studio did William Fox and Carl Laemmle eventually form?

2. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?

3. What were the only restrictions placed on directors in the 1920s?

4. In England in the 1930s, what sociologist announced that films could be a powerful tool for social reform?

5. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?

(see the answer key)

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