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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 was significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?
(a) Universities were mined for potential talent.
(b) Universities began offering film courses.
(c) Films were used as a teaching aid.
(d) Universities opened up their own production companies for the students.

2. What was Italian director Luchino Visconti's title in his home country?
(a) The Duke of Conti.
(b) The Baron of Sicily.
(c) The Baron of Venice.
(d) The Duke of Modrone.

3. Which of the following words can be used to describe the films that were produced during the early years of the Golden Age?
(a) Expressive.
(b) Experimental.
(c) Socially aware.
(d) Formulaic.

4. What French documentary from the 1980s dealt with the Holocaust?
(a) "Zappatos."
(b) "Shoa."
(c) "Au Revoir, Paris."
(d) "Les Monstrous."

5. What British comedy troupe had a cinematic bright spot for their country's struggling film industry?
(a) Are You Being Served?
(b) Kids in the Hall.
(c) Absolutely Fabulous.
(d) Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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 men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?

3. In what year did the stock market crash in America, causing film investors to pull out of Hollywood?

4. Which of the following comedians was not one of the silent film stars from the 1920s?

5. The two main regions involved in film production before the move to California were New York and _________.

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