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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. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) Norman Raff.
(b) William Dickson.
(c) Jean Louis Meissonier.
(d) Eadward Muybridge.

2. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Gangster films were banned.
(b) Violence was removed.
(c) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(d) The films became morality tales.

3. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?
(a) MPAA.
(b) Hayes Code.
(c) Production Code.
(d) Decency Council.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the 1950s, how many homes in America had a television set?

2. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?

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

4. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?

5. 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?

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