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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. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1929.

2. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?
(a) The studios lured them to America.
(b) Nazi persecution.
(c) Political exiling.
(d) Low production values.

3. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?
(a) Frank Capra.
(b) Max von Manderling.
(c) John Ford.
(d) Ernst Lubitsch.

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

5. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?
(a) The stories were presented in serial format.
(b) The actors all had scandalous lives.
(c) The tabloid era had begun.
(d) The audiences did not need to follow a plot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Post-World War II, who was Italy's most prominent director?

2. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?

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

4. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?

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

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