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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 hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Nazis.
(c) Women's liberation.
(d) Communists.

2. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Max Ophuls.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) Leni Reifenstahl.

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

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

5. In Eastern Europe in the seventies, what topic was generally avoided in their cinema?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Historical accuracy.
(c) Violence.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?

2. What political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?

3. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?

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

5. What was the focus of Russian documentaries after World War II, as ordered by Stalin?

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