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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?
(a) Story lines.
(b) Star power.
(c) Studios.
(d) Independent films.

2. Who revolutionized the way films were shot on-location through such "studios on wheels" such as the Cinemobile Mark IV?
(a) David Lynch.
(b) Alfred Hitchcock.
(c) Fouad Said.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

3. 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?
(a) Television.
(b) Music.
(c) Publishing.
(d) Theatrical.

4. What were the primary goal's of German films after World War II?
(a) Entertainment for the masses.
(b) Correcting Nazi propaganda.
(c) Promoting the country's worth.
(d) Asking other countries for help.

5. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Art galleries.
(c) Television.
(d) Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of film became particularly popular in the early seventies?

2. How did the end of the Vietnam War affect the content of American films?

3. Which of the following was not one of the most respected Japanese directors from the post-World War II era?

4. Who was the top female filmmaker in Italy from the seventies?

5. What was significant about the marketing tactics of the American film studios in the eighties?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the 1970s, how did West Germany start to address their role in World War II?

2. Why was Japan's golden age in film able to thrive throughout the World War II and beyond, despite the political turmoil?

3. How did the New Wave movement from France affect American movie trends in the 1970s?

4. How did the invention of the videocassette simplify camerawork?

5. How did the Soviet Union change Czechoslovakia's film industry in the 1960s?

6. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

7. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

8. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

9. How and why did the quality of mass-produced films diminish in the 1980s?

10. Why was the French film industry nearly destroyed because of World War II?

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