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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 17-20.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The political aspects.
(b) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.
(c) Sexual innuendo.
(d) The accents of foreign stars.
2. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?
(a) The tabloid era had begun.
(b) The actors all had scandalous lives.
(c) The audiences did not need to follow a plot.
(d) The stories were presented in serial format.
3. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?
(a) Thrillers.
(b) Comedies.
(c) Musicals.
(d) Action.
4. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?
(a) Ernst Lubitsch.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) Max von Manderling.
(d) John Ford.
5. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?
(a) Uprising Cockney.
(b) Kitchen Sink realism.
(c) Pinter Pause realism.
(d) Chekhovian absurdity.
Short Answer Questions
1. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?
2. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?
3. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?
4. Which of the following was not one of the rising directors of independent American films in the nineties?
5. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.
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