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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 Asian city produced martial arts films that became incredibly popular with the international, mainstream audience?
(a) Saigon.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Burma.

2. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of American cinema in the 1980s?
(a) Government corruption.
(b) Money.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Nationalism.

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

4. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Eli Whitney.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of music became popular for movie soundtracks in the sixties?

2. In what year did the stock market crash in America, causing film investors to pull out of Hollywood?

3. Which of the following was not one of the rising directors of independent American films in the nineties?

4. How large was the tax on foreign film earning in Britain after World War II?

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

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