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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 were the only restrictions placed on directors in the 1920s?
(a) They had to work subliminal advertising into their films.
(b) They had to stay within their budget.
(c) They were not allowed to take a bigger cut of the movie's profits than the actors.
(d) They could only use one "star" at a time.

2. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?
(a) Nazi persecution.
(b) Low production values.
(c) The studios lured them to America.
(d) Political exiling.

3. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?
(a) Cannons.
(b) Screams.
(c) Stabs.
(d) Machine guns.

4. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?
(a) Talented actors.
(b) Special effects and lighting.
(c) Prohibition forced people into the theaters.
(d) Cinematography.

5. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?
(a) Funding.
(b) Denouncement of British films from Hitler.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Bomb threats.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what decade were silent films perfected?

3. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?

4. Which director, during America in the 1940s, became renowned for film adaptations of literature?

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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