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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 most popular genres to emerge from Japan's film industry?
(a) Historical romance.
(b) Animation.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Samurai films.

2. With country did the poetic realistic cinema flourish?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Iran.
(c) Korea.
(d) Canada.

3. In what genre did Yugoslavia excel in the sixties?
(a) Action.
(b) Horror.
(c) Thrillers.
(d) Animation.

4. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.
(a) Languages.
(b) Scripts.
(c) Genres.
(d) Location shoots.

5. Which of the following directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?
(a) Roberto Rossellini.
(b) Vincent Minnelli.
(c) Vittorio de Sica.
(d) Cesare Zavattini.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

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

5. In the first several decades of the film industry, European films focused on the artists, while American films focused on the _______.

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