View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Universities began offering film courses.
(d) Films were used as a teaching aid.

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

3. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?
(a) 3D.
(b) Videocassettes.
(c) IMax.
(d) Surround sound.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?
(a) The fifties.
(b) The sixites.
(c) The forties.
(d) The seventies.

8. For what reasons did filmmakers simplify camera work in the 1980s?
(a) They were shooting a film that would translate well onto televisions.
(b) They lost their technical budgets.
(c) Eastern European cinematographers influenced American filmmakers.
(d) Several movie theaters shut down.

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

10. Due to the cinema's reflection of the American public's distrust of the government, what began to happen to the movie theater?
(a) Theaters became segregated.
(b) Security had to be enforced in the theater.
(c) Attendance rose.
(d) Attendance declined.

11. What became the focus of American cinema in the seventies?
(a) Plot.
(b) Historical accuracy.
(c) Character development.
(d) Music as a story-telling device.

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

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

14. Which of the following was not one of the most popular genres to emerge from Japan's film industry?
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Historical romance.
(c) Samurai films.
(d) Animation.

15. In Eastern Europe in the seventies, what topic was generally avoided in their cinema?
(a) Historical accuracy.
(b) Politics.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of film became particularly popular in the early seventies?

2. What style of acting became popular in films in the 1950s?

3. Which Eastern European country became a strong force in the international film community in the sixties?

4. What popular American film from the eighties was one of the most successful mixes of both animation and live action?

5. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 442 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample