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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. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?
(a) Advanced lighting techniques.
(b) Comedy duos.
(c) Dance numbers.
(d) Sexual innuendo.

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

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

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

5. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) Warner Bros.
(b) RKO.
(c) Universal.
(d) Paramount.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following comedians was not one of the silent film stars from the 1920s?

2. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?

3. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?

4. In what era did early film begin to primarily grow?

5. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?

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