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

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

3. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?
(a) Jean Renoir I.
(b) Pierre Auguste Renoir.
(c) Vincente Renoir.
(d) Marcel LeFever Renoir.

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

5. The Kinetoscope was developed by Thomas Edison and _______ _______.
(a) Jean Louis Meissonier.
(b) Norman Raff.
(c) Eadward Muybridge.
(d) William Dickson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

2. After what major event did film gain popularity in the USSR?

3. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

4. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?

5. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?

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