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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 France's sudden revitalization in their film industry in the 1950s?
(a) Film du Prince.
(b) New Wave.
(c) Cinema Noir.
(d) Golden Era.

2. 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) Television.
(b) Publishing.
(c) Music.
(d) Theatrical.

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

4. 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) The war forced studios to allow low-budget films to flourish.
(d) Underground artists became mainstream.

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

6. Which continent dominated the international film market in the sixties?
(a) Europe.
(b) South America.
(c) North America.
(d) Asia.

7. What political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?
(a) Watergate.
(b) Kennedy assassination.
(c) The fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) Ollie North's resignation.

8. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1958.

9. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?
(a) Vietnam War.
(b) Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Deaths of the Kennedy brothers.
(d) Death of Marilyn Monroe.

10. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?
(a) Uprising Cockney.
(b) Pinter Pause realism.
(c) Chekhovian absurdity.
(d) Kitchen Sink realism.

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

12. Due to the obliteration of the Production Code in the sixties, what type of films became popular in the seventies?
(a) Blaxploitation.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Horror.
(d) Experimental.

13. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?
(a) Theatrical adaptations.
(b) Epics.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Neo-realism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country did director Ingmar Bergman come?

2. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?

3. Which of the following directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?

4. At the end of the 1950s, how many homes in America had a television set?

5. Which European country's film industry was the most devastated after World War II?

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