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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. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1954.

2. What sort of performers were ideal candidates for comedy shorts in the 1920s?
(a) Vaudeville.
(b) Dancers.
(c) Shakespearean.
(d) Singers.

3. What genre of film became particularly popular in the early seventies?
(a) Grindhouse.
(b) Screwball comedy.
(c) Horror.
(d) Blaxploitation.

4. Who was the top female filmmaker in Italy from the seventies?
(a) Valeria Patroni.
(b) Lucia de Talita.
(c) Diane Kurys.
(d) Lena Wertmuller.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Production Code become obsolete?

2. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?

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

4. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?

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

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