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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?
(a) They would start getting bored.
(b) They would dislike the actors.
(c) They would demand their money back.
(d) It would be harder to follow the plot.

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

3. What editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
(a) Fritz Lang.
(b) Lev Kulshov.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Sergei Einstein.

4. Post-World War II, who was Italy's most prominent director?
(a) Ingmar Bergman.
(b) Federico Fellini.
(c) Vittorio Rossellini.
(d) Lorenzo Trattoria.

5. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Theater of Cruelty.
(c) Brechtian.
(d) Theater of the Absurd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?

2. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?

3. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

4. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?

5. The Kinetoscope was developed by Thomas Edison and _______ _______.

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