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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what film technique did European filmmakers begin experimenting?
(a) Special effects.
(b) Cinematography.
(c) Editing.
(d) Sound.

2. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?
(a) The ladies' man.
(b) The tramp.
(c) The baby.
(d) The swashbuckler.

3. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?
(a) Telegraph.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Television.
(d) Radio.

4. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?
(a) The visuals were too realistic.
(b) Films from the War Department had been leaked to Hollywood.
(c) The government wanted to keep Americans ignorant of the war overseas.
(d) The filmmakers inadvertently gave away state secrets.

5. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The accents of foreign stars.
(b) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.
(c) The political aspects.
(d) Sexual innuendo.

Short Answer Questions

1. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?

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

3. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?

4. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?

5. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?

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