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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 of the following was not one of the dominating, mainstream directors in American cinema in the 1990s?
(a) Martin Scorsese.
(b) Steven Spielberg.
(c) Woody Allen.
(d) Michael Bay.

2. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.
(b) Sexual innuendo.
(c) The political aspects.
(d) The accents of foreign stars.

3. In Eastern Europe in the seventies, what topic was generally avoided in their cinema?
(a) Historical accuracy.
(b) Violence.
(c) Politics.
(d) Sexuality.

4. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?
(a) Production Code.
(b) Hayes Code.
(c) MPAA.
(d) Decency Council.

5. Which of the following directors of Islamic cinema did not rise to prominence in the last years of the twentieth century?
(a) Abbas Kiarostami.
(b) Janfar Panahi.
(c) Amiri Makhmalbaf.
(d) Yilmaz Guney.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did films from the Third World go about crossing the language barrier for international audiences?

2. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?

3. What event in Eastern Europe caused their film market to struggle mightily in the last decade of the twentieth century?

4. What French documentary from the 1980s dealt with the Holocaust?

5. Which of the following was not one of the most popular genres to emerge from Japan's film industry?

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