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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the top female filmmaker in Italy from the seventies?
(a) Lucia de Talita.
(b) Diane Kurys.
(c) Valeria Patroni.
(d) Lena Wertmuller.

2. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?
(a) Nudity.
(b) Improvisation.
(c) Violence.
(d) Song and dance.

3. 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) Salaries of the technical designers were cut.
(d) They cut back on the amount of films made.

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

5. Who was the comedic French director that rose to prominence in the 1950s?
(a) Vincente Augois.
(b) Robert Bresson.
(c) Jacques Tati.
(d) Luc Besson.

6. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?
(a) Story lines.
(b) Independent films.
(c) Star power.
(d) Studios.

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

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

9. What became the new standard screen ratio for films in the 1950s?
(a) 21 to 5.
(b) 16 to 3.
(c) 1.85 to 1.
(d) 2.15 to 1.

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 declined.
(d) Attendance rose.

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

12. What was Italian director Luchino Visconti's title in his home country?
(a) The Duke of Modrone.
(b) The Duke of Conti.
(c) The Baron of Sicily.
(d) The Baron of Venice.

13. As the studio system rose again in the 1980s, what area suffered?
(a) Foreign films.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Independent films.

14. Who replaced Czechoslovakia's government, obliterating their film industry?
(a) Soviet Union.
(b) Northern Africa.
(c) United States.
(d) Germany.

15. When Britain began to focus on literary and theatrical stage adaptations for their film industry in the years surrounding World War II, what renowned actor became particularly lauded for his work in this area?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) Laurence Olivier.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Peter Sellers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what did the American film-going public demand in regards to the subjects of films in the 1980s?

3. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?

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

5. Due to the obliteration of the Production Code in the sixties, what type of films became popular in the seventies?

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