Flashback: A Brief History of Film Test | Final Test - Easy

Louis Giannetti
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Flashback: A Brief History of Film Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the period in England from 1963 to 1970?
(a) Swinging England.
(b) Sex Pistol's Penance.
(c) Overt Cockney.
(d) Angry Young Man movement.

2. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?
(a) Foreign investors took an interest and guaranteed massive kick-backs.
(b) Several loans were received from the government.
(c) Heavy financial losses.
(d) Massive financial gains.

3. What hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?
(a) Communists.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Women's liberation.
(d) Nazis.

4. What country nearly wiped out the French film industry after World War II?
(a) Italy.
(b) America.
(c) Britain.
(d) Germany.

5. During the 1960s in Hollywood, what was the main focus in the industry's mainstream films?
(a) Glamour.
(b) Political awareness.
(c) Intrigue.
(d) International relations.

6. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?
(a) Theatrical.
(b) Television.
(c) Publishing.
(d) Music.

7. What was significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?
(a) Universities opened up their own production companies for the students.
(b) Universities were mined for potential talent.
(c) Films were used as a teaching aid.
(d) Universities began offering film courses.

8. How did the end of the Vietnam War affect the content of American films?
(a) Audience attendance in movie theaters declined, allowing the industry to experiment more.
(b) Audiences demanded less censorship.
(c) Audiences began to look more for "traditional values" again.
(d) Audiences demanded more widespread diversity within the industry.

9. In what year did the Production Code become obsolete?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1969.

10. What was the focus of Russian documentaries after World War II, as ordered by Stalin?
(a) Russian nationalism.
(b) Sweeping epics.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Historical dramas.

11. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Immigration rights.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Anti-censorship lobbying.

12. What was the main focus in French cinema in the seventies?
(a) Mood.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Characters.
(d) Plot.

13. What style of acting became popular in films in the 1950s?
(a) Method.
(b) Brechtian.
(c) Chekhovian.
(d) Meisner.

14. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?
(a) Britain.
(b) United States.
(c) France.
(d) Sweden.

15. In what year did the stock market crash in America, causing film investors to pull out of Hollywood?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Italian director Luchino Visconti's title in his home country?

2. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.

3. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?

4. What region became renowned for their film adaptations of literary classics?

5. In the seventies, upon what did German cinema begin to reflect?

(see the answer keys)

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