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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?
(a) The baby.
(b) The ladies' man.
(c) The tramp.
(d) The swashbuckler.

3. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?
(a) Film audiences went to television.
(b) Many directors quit the industry after the war.
(c) The war forced studios to allow low-budget films to flourish.
(d) Underground artists became mainstream.

4. 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) Sexual innuendo.
(d) The accents of foreign stars.

5. The two main regions involved in film production before the move to California were New York and _________.
(a) Maine.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?

2. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?

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

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

5. What was Harry Langdon's film persona?

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