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

2. What hindered filmmakers in China during the 1990s?
(a) Japan's dominance of the foreign market.
(b) Government surveillance.
(c) The filmmakers' inability to leave the country.
(d) Lack of budget.

3. What event in Eastern Europe caused their film market to struggle mightily in the last decade of the twentieth century?
(a) The fall of Communism.
(b) The fall of the Berlin Wall.
(c) The independence of China.
(d) The death of Stalin.

4. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?
(a) Improvisation.
(b) Song and dance.
(c) Violence.
(d) Nudity.

5. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?
(a) Laurel and Hardy.
(b) Marx Brothers.
(c) Wilber and Woolsley.
(d) Abbott and Costello.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?

2. What was the biggest international hit from the 1990s that came from Eastern Europe?

3. Which of the following was not one of the dominating, mainstream directors in American cinema in the 1990s?

4. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?

5. How did films from the Third World go about crossing the language barrier for international audiences?

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