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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. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Screams.
(c) Cannons.
(d) Stabs.

2. Which of the following was not one of the major national movements in America during the 1970s?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Populism.
(d) Marxism.

3. With country did the poetic realistic cinema flourish?
(a) Korea.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Canada.
(d) Iran.

4. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1954.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?

2. What was significant about the marketing tactics of the American film studios in the eighties?

3. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?

4. In England in the 1930s, what sociologist announced that films could be a powerful tool for social reform?

5. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?

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