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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. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?
(a) Theater of Cruelty.
(b) Theater of the Absurd.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Brechtian.

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

3. Which European country's film industry was the most devastated after World War II?
(a) Italy.
(b) Greece.
(c) Spain.
(d) Germany.

4. What French documentary from the 1980s dealt with the Holocaust?
(a) "Zappatos."
(b) "Les Monstrous."
(c) "Au Revoir, Paris."
(d) "Shoa."

5. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?
(a) Art galleries.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Television.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?

2. Which of the following comedians was not one of the silent film stars from the 1920s?

3. What hindered filmmakers in China during the 1990s?

4. Hollywood, in the 2000s, began to focus on adaptations of comics books and _______.

5. What was the main difficulty encountered by films from the Third World?

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