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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. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1911.

2. Which European country's film industry was the most devastated after World War II?
(a) Greece.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

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) Theatrical.
(b) Music.
(c) Television.
(d) Publishing.

4. Which artist pushed the boundaries on sex and violence on film?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Fritz Lang.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Frida Kahlo.

5. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?
(a) The filmmakers inadvertently gave away state secrets.
(b) The visuals were too realistic.
(c) The government wanted to keep Americans ignorant of the war overseas.
(d) Films from the War Department had been leaked to Hollywood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?

2. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?

3. What animal did Eadward Muybridge photograph?

4. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?

5. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?

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