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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. In what style did the French produce their films?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Horror.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Historical.

2. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?
(a) The stories were presented in serial format.
(b) The tabloid era had begun.
(c) The actors all had scandalous lives.
(d) The audiences did not need to follow a plot.

3. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1930.

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) The government wanted to keep Americans ignorant of the war overseas.
(c) Films from the War Department had been leaked to Hollywood.
(d) The filmmakers inadvertently gave away state secrets.

5. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?
(a) Theater of the Absurd.
(b) Theater of Cruelty.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Brechtian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

2. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?

3. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?

4. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?

5. What did the formation of the Patent Company force theaters showing their films to do?

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