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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

2. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Denouncement of British films from Hitler.
(c) Funding.
(d) Bomb threats.

3. What group was formed in 1908 with the intention to further develop the Kinetoscope technology?
(a) Actor's Equity.
(b) American Federation of Television and Radio Actors.
(c) Screen Actors Guild.
(d) The Film D'Art.

4. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?
(a) Period dramas.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Suspense.

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

6. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?
(a) The audiences did not need to follow a plot.
(b) The stories were presented in serial format.
(c) The actors all had scandalous lives.
(d) The tabloid era had begun.

7. What sort of performers were ideal candidates for comedy shorts in the 1920s?
(a) Dancers.
(b) Singers.
(c) Shakespearean.
(d) Vaudeville.

8. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Radio.
(b) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.
(c) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.
(d) Stage.

9. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Radio.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Television.

10. How large was the tax on foreign film earning in Britain after World War II?
(a) 65%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 45%.

11. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?
(a) Talented actors.
(b) Special effects and lighting.
(c) Prohibition forced people into the theaters.
(d) Cinematography.

12. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?
(a) Glass lantern.
(b) Rear projector.
(c) Zoetrope.
(d) Rotoscope.

13. Which director, during America in the 1940s, became renowned for film adaptations of literature?
(a) Billy Wilder.
(b) John Huston.
(c) Orson Welles.
(d) Preston Sturges.

14. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) RKO.
(b) Warner Bros.
(c) Paramount.
(d) Universal.

15. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) Norman Raff.
(b) Eadward Muybridge.
(c) William Dickson.
(d) Jean Louis Meissonier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Harry Langdon's film persona?

2. What studio did William Fox and Carl Laemmle eventually form?

3. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?

4. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?

5. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?

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