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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(b) Gangster films were banned.
(c) The films became morality tales.
(d) Violence was removed.

2. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1929.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?
(a) It would be harder to follow the plot.
(b) They would dislike the actors.
(c) They would start getting bored.
(d) They would demand their money back.

8. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?
(a) Theater.
(b) Sound design.
(c) Dance companies.
(d) Music.

9. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?
(a) Framing.
(b) Explosions.
(c) Polyvision.
(d) Staged combat.

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

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

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

13. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?
(a) Filming the weather was not intriguing enough for audiences.
(b) Cameras could be operated by one man.
(c) The films should be longer.
(d) Reels could be cut together.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

2. Why did the independent filmmakers head for California while the Patent Company existed?

3. With what film technique did European filmmakers begin experimenting?

4. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?

5. For what company did Griffith work?

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