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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. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?
(a) Low production values.
(b) The studios lured them to America.
(c) Nazi persecution.
(d) Political exiling.

2. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) World War I.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) World War II.

3. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?
(a) "The Once and Future King."
(b) "Rebecca."
(c) "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
(d) "Strangers on a Train."

4. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Dance.
(d) Hat.

5. Which of the following was not one of the Little Three in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) Columbia.
(b) United Artists.
(c) Universal.
(d) RKO.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the early seventies in America cinema, which of the following was not one of the main themes explored?

2. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?

3. What were the primary goal's of German films after World War II?

4. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?

5. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

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