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

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

3. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?
(a) Actor's biographies.
(b) Travel.
(c) War.
(d) Religious.

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

5. In what era did early film begin to primarily grow?
(a) Nickelodean Era.
(b) Moving Era.
(c) Golden Era.
(d) Silent Era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?

2. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?

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

4. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?

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

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