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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. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?
(a) "Strangers on a Train."
(b) "The Once and Future King."
(c) "Rebecca."
(d) "The Private Life of Henry VIII."

2. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?
(a) The war.
(b) Filming on location.
(c) Censorship.
(d) Salaries.

3. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?
(a) Disney.
(b) MGM.
(c) RKO.
(d) Warner Bros.

4. As the studio system rose again in the 1980s, what area suffered?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Independent films.
(d) Foreign films.

5. What hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Communists.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Women's liberation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?

2. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?

3. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?

4. Why did the independent filmmakers head for California while the Patent Company existed?

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

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