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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 was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?
(a) The baby.
(b) The tramp.
(c) The ladies' man.
(d) The swashbuckler.

2. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Cannons.
(c) Stabs.
(d) Screams.

3. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?
(a) Rear projector.
(b) Glass lantern.
(c) Zoetrope.
(d) Rotoscope.

4. What was the main focus in French cinema in the seventies?
(a) Plot.
(b) Mood.
(c) Characters.
(d) Dialogue.

5. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?
(a) United States.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1960s in Hollywood, what was the main focus in the industry's mainstream films?

2. When Hitler came to power, what did Europe lose in their film industry?

3. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?

4. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?

5. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?

(see the answer key)

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