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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. What style of acting became popular in films in the 1950s?
(a) Method.
(b) Brechtian.
(c) Meisner.
(d) Chekhovian.

2. What region became renowned for their film adaptations of literary classics?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Southern Japan.
(c) Eastern Europe.
(d) USSR.

3. What genre of film became particularly popular in the early seventies?
(a) Blaxploitation.
(b) Horror.
(c) Grindhouse.
(d) Screwball comedy.

4. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Radio.
(b) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.
(c) Stage.
(d) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.

5. How did films from the Third World go about crossing the language barrier for international audiences?
(a) Subtitles.
(b) Dubbing.
(c) Silent movie tactics were employed.
(d) Scripts were handed out at movie premieres.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

2. What was the name of France's sudden revitalization in their film industry in the 1950s?

3. What did the formation of the Patent Company force theaters showing their films to do?

4. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?

5. What program in Britain flourished in the 1990s?

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