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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. How did the end of the Vietnam War affect the content of American films?
(a) Audiences demanded less censorship.
(b) Audiences began to look more for "traditional values" again.
(c) Audience attendance in movie theaters declined, allowing the industry to experiment more.
(d) Audiences demanded more widespread diversity within the industry.

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

3. For what company did Griffith work?
(a) Fields Inc.
(b) Biograph.
(c) Paramount.
(d) Lamont.

4. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Sergei Einstein.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) Ernst Lubitsch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

2. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?

3. What was significant about the marketing tactics of the American film studios in the eighties?

4. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?

5. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?

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