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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 America during the late 1960s, what was the general mood of the youth?
(a) Conscientious objectors.
(b) Severe ennui.
(c) Pro-government.
(d) Anti-establishment.

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

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

4. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?
(a) Britain.
(b) Sweden.
(c) United States.
(d) France.

5. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?
(a) "The Once and Future King."
(b) "Strangers on a Train."
(c) "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
(d) "Rebecca."

Short Answer Questions

1. In regards to equality in the workplace, what was significant about American films from the 1990s?

2. For what did the American film-going public demand in regards to the subjects of films in the 1980s?

3. What were the primary goal's of German films after World War II?

4. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?

5. What was the name of the cultural movement in Czechoslavakia during the sixties?

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