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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
(a) Sergei Einstein.
(b) Lev Kulshov.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

2. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of the film-making committees in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) Stars.
(b) Story.
(c) Studios
(d) Genres.

3. 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) Bomb threats.
(d) Funding.

4. Which of the following was not one of the Little Three in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) United Artists.
(b) Universal.
(c) RKO.
(d) Columbia.

5. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?
(a) Nazi persecution.
(b) Low production values.
(c) The studios lured them to America.
(d) Political exiling.

6. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1911.

7. What animal did Eadward Muybridge photograph?
(a) Horse.
(b) Dog.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Cat.

8. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?
(a) Dance.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Glasses.
(d) Hat.

9. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?
(a) 40.
(b) 35.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

10. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?
(a) Labor laws.
(b) The roles of minorities in film.
(c) Communism.
(d) Nazi spies.

11. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?
(a) MGM.
(b) RKO.
(c) Warner Bros.
(d) Disney.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Kinetoscope was developed by Thomas Edison and _______ _______.

2. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

3. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?

4. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

5. In the first several decades of the film industry, European films focused on the artists, while American films focused on the _______.

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