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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. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Art galleries.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Television.

2. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1894.

3. What hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Women's liberation.
(c) Communists.
(d) Nazis.

4. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?
(a) Deaths of the Kennedy brothers.
(b) Vietnam War.
(c) Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Death of Marilyn Monroe.

5. 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) Pornography.
(d) Horror.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Eastern European or communist bloc country did not rise to prominence in the eighties?

2. What sort of schools began to flourish in America in the 1990s in regards to the entertainment industry?

3. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?

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

5. How did films from the Third World go about crossing the language barrier for international audiences?

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