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

2. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1929.

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

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) Socially aware.
(c) Formulaic.
(d) Expressive.

5. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?
(a) The sixites.
(b) The fifties.
(c) The seventies.
(d) The forties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of the film-making committees in the Golden Age of the Studio?

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

3. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

4. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?

5. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

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