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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. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?
(a) Glass lantern.
(b) Rear projector.
(c) Rotoscope.
(d) Zoetrope.

2. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) One day.
(d) One week.

3. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) William Dickson.
(b) Eadward Muybridge.
(c) Norman Raff.
(d) Jean Louis Meissonier.

4. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?
(a) MPAA.
(b) Decency Council.
(c) Production Code.
(d) Hayes Code.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which director, during America in the 1940s, became renowned for film adaptations of literature?

3. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

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

5. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

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