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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 influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Stage.
(b) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.
(c) Radio.
(d) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.

2. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) Prohibition.

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

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

5. Which director, during America in the 1940s, became renowned for film adaptations of literature?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) Preston Sturges.
(c) Billy Wilder.
(d) John Huston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?

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

3. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?

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

5. In the first several decades of the film industry, European films focused on the artists, while American films focused on the _______.

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