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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?
(a) The seventies.
(b) The forties.
(c) The fifties.
(d) The sixites.

2. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1929.

3. The Kinetoscope was developed by Thomas Edison and _______ _______.
(a) Norman Raff.
(b) Jean Louis Meissonier.
(c) William Dickson.
(d) Eadward Muybridge.

4. In what year did the Production Code become obsolete?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1969.

5. What hindered filmmakers in China during the 1990s?
(a) Government surveillance.
(b) Japan's dominance of the foreign market.
(c) The filmmakers' inability to leave the country.
(d) Lack of budget.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who replaced Czechoslovakia's government, obliterating their film industry?

2. For what reasons did the Latin American film industry thrive around the new millennium?

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

4. Hollywood, in the 2000s, began to focus on adaptations of comics books and _______.

5. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?

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