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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. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?
(a) Period dramas.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Musicals.
(d) Suspense.

2. In what decade were silent films perfected?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1890s.

3. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Leni Reifenstahl.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) Max Ophuls.

4. What editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
(a) Sergei Einstein.
(b) F.W. Murnau.
(c) Lev Kulshov.
(d) Fritz Lang.

5. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?
(a) Cameras could be operated by one man.
(b) Filming the weather was not intriguing enough for audiences.
(c) The films should be longer.
(d) Reels could be cut together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of the film-making committees in the Golden Age of the Studio?

2. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?

3. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?

4. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?

5. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?

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