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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 editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Fritz Lang.
(c) Sergei Einstein.
(d) Lev Kulshov.

2. What filmmaker from Spain loved to shock the upper-middle classes in Western Europe?
(a) Guillermo Del Toro.
(b) Pedro Almodovar.
(c) Alfonso Cuaron.
(d) Diego Bernal.

3. For what did the American film-going public demand in regards to the subjects of films in the 1980s?
(a) The lives of the rich.
(b) The lives of the young.
(c) The lives of the very poor.
(d) The lives of foreign nationals.

4. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?
(a) The war forced studios to allow low-budget films to flourish.
(b) Many directors quit the industry after the war.
(c) Underground artists became mainstream.
(d) Film audiences went to television.

5. What was Italian director Luchino Visconti's title in his home country?
(a) The Duke of Conti.
(b) The Duke of Modrone.
(c) The Baron of Venice.
(d) The Baron of Sicily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?

2. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?

3. Post-World War II, who was Italy's most prominent director?

4. In what genre did Yugoslavia excel in the sixties?

5. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?

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