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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.
(a) Languages.
(b) Scripts.
(c) Genres.
(d) Location shoots.

2. Which of the following directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?
(a) Roberto Rossellini.
(b) Cesare Zavattini.
(c) Vittorio de Sica.
(d) Vincent Minnelli.

3. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?
(a) "No Exit."
(b) "Madame Bovary."
(c) "La Cage aux Folles."
(d) "Les Liaisons Dangerouse."

4. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?
(a) IMax.
(b) 3D.
(c) Videocassettes.
(d) Surround sound.

5. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?
(a) Vietnam War.
(b) Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Death of Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Deaths of the Kennedy brothers.

6. For what reasons did Japanese films escape censorship from their government in their Golden Age?
(a) Japanese films were veiled propaganda for the government.
(b) Japanese films were naturally conservative.
(c) Japanese directors managed to film exclusively outside of their country.
(d) Japanese films dealt strictly in historical events.

7. 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?
(a) Rotoscope.
(b) CinemaScope.
(c) 3D.
(d) Cinerama.

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

9. Which European country's film industry was the most devastated after World War II?
(a) Greece.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

10. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1958.

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

12. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?
(a) The forties.
(b) The fifties.
(c) The sixites.
(d) The seventies.

13. During the 1960s in Hollywood, what was the main focus in the industry's mainstream films?
(a) Political awareness.
(b) International relations.
(c) Intrigue.
(d) Glamour.

14. What was significant about the marketing tactics of the American film studios in the eighties?
(a) Stars were marketed aggressively.
(b) Patriotism was emphasized.
(c) Youth was repeatedly pushed aside.
(d) Trailer editing rose as an art form.

15. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?
(a) Neo-realism.
(b) Theatrical adaptations.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Epics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style of acting became popular in films in the 1950s?

2. In America during the late 1960s, what was the general mood of the youth?

3. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?

4. What became the focus of American cinema in the seventies?

5. Due to the cinema's reflection of the American public's distrust of the government, what began to happen to the movie theater?

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