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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. Which of the following words can be used to describe the films that were produced during the early years of the Golden Age?
(a) Expressive.
(b) Experimental.
(c) Formulaic.
(d) Socially aware.

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

3. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) World War I.

4. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?
(a) Disney.
(b) Warner Bros.
(c) RKO.
(d) MGM.

5. For what company did Griffith work?
(a) Fields Inc.
(b) Biograph.
(c) Paramount.
(d) Lamont.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large was the tax on foreign film earning in Britain after World War II?

2. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

3. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?

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

5. From what country did director Ingmar Bergman come?

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