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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 was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?
(a) Song and dance.
(b) Violence.
(c) Improvisation.
(d) Nudity.

2. What was significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?
(a) Films were used as a teaching aid.
(b) Universities began offering film courses.
(c) Universities were mined for potential talent.
(d) Universities opened up their own production companies for the students.

3. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?
(a) Labor laws.
(b) Nazi spies.
(c) Communism.
(d) The roles of minorities in film.

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

5. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Eli Whitney.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Orson Welles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what style did the French produce their films?

2. When Hitler came to power, what did Europe lose in their film industry?

3. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?

4. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?

5. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?

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