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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?
(a) Leni Reifenstahl.
(b) Max Ophuls.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Fritz Lang.

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

3. What were the only restrictions placed on directors in the 1920s?
(a) They had to stay within their budget.
(b) They could only use one "star" at a time.
(c) They were not allowed to take a bigger cut of the movie's profits than the actors.
(d) They had to work subliminal advertising into their films.

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

5. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?
(a) Advanced lighting techniques.
(b) Sexual innuendo.
(c) Comedy duos.
(d) Dance numbers.

6. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?
(a) A sound machine.
(b) A live-action special effects device.
(c) An illusion of movement.
(d) A projector.

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

8. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?
(a) Music.
(b) Story.
(c) Lighting.
(d) Cinematographer.

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

10. Which of the following comedians was not one of the silent film stars from the 1920s?
(a) Harold Lloyd.
(b) Buster Keaton.
(c) Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Lou Costello.

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

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

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

14. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?
(a) The visuals were too realistic.
(b) The filmmakers inadvertently gave away state secrets.
(c) The government wanted to keep Americans ignorant of the war overseas.
(d) Films from the War Department had been leaked to Hollywood.

15. What studio did William Fox and Carl Laemmle eventually form?
(a) Universal.
(b) Paramount.
(c) MGM.
(d) Fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what era did early film begin to primarily grow?

2. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?

3. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?

4. For what company did Griffith work?

5. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?

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