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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what genre did Yugoslavia excel in the sixties?
(a) Action.
(b) Animation.
(c) Horror.
(d) Thrillers.

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

4. What were the primary goal's of German films after World War II?
(a) Entertainment for the masses.
(b) Correcting Nazi propaganda.
(c) Promoting the country's worth.
(d) Asking other countries for help.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Post-World War II, who was Italy's most prominent director?
(a) Lorenzo Trattoria.
(b) Vittorio Rossellini.
(c) Ingmar Bergman.
(d) Federico Fellini.

12. What region became renowned for their film adaptations of literary classics?
(a) Southern Japan.
(b) Scotland.
(c) USSR.
(d) Eastern Europe.

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

14. What sort of music became popular for movie soundtracks in the sixties?
(a) Jazz music.
(b) Classical music.
(c) Rock music.
(d) Ragtime music.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the main focus in French cinema in the seventies?

3. Who was the comedic French director that rose to prominence in the 1950s?

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

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

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