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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?
(a) Uprising Cockney.
(b) Pinter Pause realism.
(c) Kitchen Sink realism.
(d) Chekhovian absurdity.

2. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?
(a) Several loans were received from the government.
(b) Heavy financial losses.
(c) Massive financial gains.
(d) Foreign investors took an interest and guaranteed massive kick-backs.

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

4. Which of the following words can be used to describe the films that were produced during the early years of the Golden Age?
(a) Experimental.
(b) Expressive.
(c) Formulaic.
(d) Socially aware.

5. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?
(a) Anti-censorship lobbying.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Immigration rights.
(d) Civil rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Due to the cinema's reflection of the American public's distrust of the government, what began to happen to the movie theater?

3. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?

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

5. With what film technique did European filmmakers begin experimenting?

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