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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 aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.
(b) The political aspects.
(c) Sexual innuendo.
(d) The accents of foreign stars.

2. In what decade were silent films perfected?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1910s.

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

4. For what did the American film-going public demand in regards to the subjects of films in the 1980s?
(a) The lives of the rich.
(b) The lives of foreign nationals.
(c) The lives of the very poor.
(d) The lives of the young.

5. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?
(a) Theater.
(b) Sound design.
(c) Music.
(d) Dance companies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?

2. Which of the following words can be used to describe the films that were produced during the early years of the Golden Age?

3. What editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?

4. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?

5. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?

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