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

2. The two main regions involved in film production before the move to California were New York and _________.
(a) Vermont.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Maine.
(d) New Jersey.

3. In the first several decades of the film industry, European films focused on the artists, while American films focused on the _______.
(a) Sociological value.
(b) Story.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Political statements.

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

5. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) Eli Whitney.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Thomas Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

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

3. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

4. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?

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

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