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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 visual effect did Abel Gance develop?
(a) Explosions.
(b) Framing.
(c) Staged combat.
(d) Polyvision.

2. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?
(a) Neo-realism.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Epics.
(d) Theatrical adaptations.

3. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?
(a) 3D.
(b) IMax.
(c) Surround sound.
(d) Videocassettes.

4. For what reasons did filmmakers simplify camera work in the 1980s?
(a) They lost their technical budgets.
(b) They were shooting a film that would translate well onto televisions.
(c) Several movie theaters shut down.
(d) Eastern European cinematographers influenced American filmmakers.

5. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Radio.
(b) Stage.
(c) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.
(d) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?

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

3. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?

4. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?

5. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?

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