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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. 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) Political statements.
(d) Entertainment.

2. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?
(a) Television.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Radio.
(d) Telegraph.

3. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 35.
(d) 40.

4. Due to the obliteration of the Production Code in the sixties, what type of films became popular in the seventies?
(a) Blaxploitation.
(b) Experimental.
(c) Horror.
(d) Pornography.

5. In what decade were silent films perfected?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1890s.

Short Answer Questions

1. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?

2. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?

3. In England in the 1930s, what sociologist announced that films could be a powerful tool for social reform?

4. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?

5. If a filmmaker from the Middle East was deemed as discussing an inappropriate subject, what punishment awaited him or her?

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