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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which European country's film industry was the most devastated after World War II?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Greece.

2. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?
(a) Many directors quit the industry after the war.
(b) Film audiences went to television.
(c) Underground artists became mainstream.
(d) The war forced studios to allow low-budget films to flourish.

3. Which Eastern European country became a strong force in the international film community in the sixties?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Czechoslavakia.
(d) Russia.

4. What British comedy troupe had a cinematic bright spot for their country's struggling film industry?
(a) Are You Being Served?
(b) Monty Python's Flying Circus.
(c) Absolutely Fabulous.
(d) Kids in the Hall.

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

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

7. Which of the following directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?
(a) Roberto Rossellini.
(b) Vittorio de Sica.
(c) Cesare Zavattini.
(d) Vincent Minnelli.

8. During the early seventies in America cinema, which of the following was not one of the main themes explored?
(a) Sexual identities.
(b) Religious iconography.
(c) Corruption in public institutions.
(d) Racism.

9. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?
(a) Cinerama.
(b) Rotoscope.
(c) 3D.
(d) CinemaScope.

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

11. For what did the American film-going public demand in regards to the subjects of films in the 1980s?
(a) The lives of the very poor.
(b) The lives of foreign nationals.
(c) The lives of the young.
(d) The lives of the rich.

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

13. Which of the following was not one of the most respected Japanese directors from the post-World War II era?
(a) Yasujiro Ozu.
(b) Akira Kurosawa.
(c) Toshiro Mifune.
(d) Kenji Mizoguchi.

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

15. During the social revolution of the sixties in America, how did Hollywood compensate for their budget cuts?
(a) Lower budget movies were promoted in the biggest studios.
(b) They invested heavily in Wall Street.
(c) They cut back on the amount of films made.
(d) Salaries of the technical designers were cut.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of American cinema in the 1980s?

3. Who was the top female filmmaker in Italy from the seventies?

4. In America during the late 1960s, what was the general mood of the youth?

5. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?

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