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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?
(a) Laurel and Hardy.
(b) Wilber and Woolsley.
(c) Abbott and Costello.
(d) Marx Brothers.

3. What was Harry Langdon's film persona?
(a) The swashbuckler.
(b) The baby.
(c) The tramp.
(d) The ladies' man.

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

5. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?
(a) Enst Lubitsch.
(b) Lev Kuleshov.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?

2. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

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

4. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?

5. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

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