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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 movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Anti-censorship lobbying.
(c) Immigration rights.
(d) Civil rights.

2. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The accents of foreign stars.
(b) The political aspects.
(c) Sexual innuendo.
(d) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.

3. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?
(a) Several loans were received from the government.
(b) Heavy financial losses.
(c) Foreign investors took an interest and guaranteed massive kick-backs.
(d) Massive financial gains.

4. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of American cinema in the 1980s?
(a) Money.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Government corruption.

5. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?
(a) 20.
(b) 35.
(c) 40.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?

3. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?

4. What country nearly wiped out the French film industry after World War II?

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

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