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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which artist pushed the boundaries on sex and violence on film?
(a) Fritz Lang.
(b) Salvador Dali.
(c) Frida Kahlo.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

2. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Sergei Einstein.
(c) Ernst Lubitsch.
(d) Fritz Lang.

3. What did the formation of the Patent Company force theaters showing their films to do?
(a) Allow people to steal the original reels.
(b) Force women to sit in the shadows.
(c) Credit all films to the Patent Company.
(d) Pay taxes to the company.

4. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) Norman Raff.
(b) Eadward Muybridge.
(c) Jean Louis Meissonier.
(d) William Dickson.

5. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?
(a) 1666.
(b) 1532.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1718.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?

2. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?

3. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?

4. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?

5. In what era did early film begin to primarily grow?

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