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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 political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?
(a) Watergate.
(b) Kennedy assassination.
(c) The fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) Ollie North's resignation.

2. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Alfred Hitchcock.
(c) Billy Wilder.
(d) Fred Zinnemann.

3. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?
(a) Thrillers.
(b) Comedies.
(c) Action.
(d) Musicals.

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

5. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?
(a) Chekhovian absurdity.
(b) Uprising Cockney.
(c) Pinter Pause realism.
(d) Kitchen Sink realism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?

4. Which of the following was not one of the Little Three in the Golden Age of the Studio?

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

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