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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) One day.
(d) One week.

3. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?
(a) Marcel LeFever Renoir.
(b) Pierre Auguste Renoir.
(c) Vincente Renoir.
(d) Jean Renoir I.

4. What was significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?
(a) Universities opened up their own production companies for the students.
(b) Films were used as a teaching aid.
(c) Universities were mined for potential talent.
(d) Universities began offering film courses.

5. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Eli Whitney.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Eastern European country became a strong force in the international film community in the sixties?

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

3. For what company did Griffith work?

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

5. With country did the poetic realistic cinema flourish?

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