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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. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Violence was removed.
(b) Gangster films were banned.
(c) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(d) The films became morality tales.

2. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?
(a) Salaries.
(b) Censorship.
(c) Filming on location.
(d) The war.

3. Who was the comedic French director that rose to prominence in the 1950s?
(a) Jacques Tati.
(b) Robert Bresson.
(c) Luc Besson.
(d) Vincente Augois.

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

5. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?
(a) Fritz Lang.
(b) Enst Lubitsch.
(c) Lev Kuleshov.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?

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 the main focus in French cinema in the seventies?

4. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

5. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.

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