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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 comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?
(a) Laurel and Hardy.
(b) Abbott and Costello.
(c) Wilber and Woolsley.
(d) Marx Brothers.

2. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The political aspects.
(b) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.
(c) The accents of foreign stars.
(d) Sexual innuendo.

3. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) Universal.
(b) Warner Bros.
(c) RKO.
(d) Paramount.

4. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Fritz Lang.
(c) Enst Lubitsch.
(d) Lev Kuleshov.

5. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?
(a) Thrillers.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Comedies.
(d) Action.

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

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

4. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?

5. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?

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