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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did the stock market crash in America, causing film investors to pull out of Hollywood?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

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

4. Who revolutionized the way films were shot on-location through such "studios on wheels" such as the Cinemobile Mark IV?
(a) Fouad Said.
(b) David Lynch.
(c) Ingmar Bergman.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

5. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of American cinema in the 1980s?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Government corruption.
(c) Money.
(d) Militarism.

6. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?
(a) United States.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Britain.
(d) France.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?
(a) "No Exit."
(b) "Madame Bovary."
(c) "Les Liaisons Dangerouse."
(d) "La Cage aux Folles."

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

14. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Fred Zinnemann.
(d) Billy Wilder.

15. What genre of film became particularly popular in the early seventies?
(a) Blaxploitation.
(b) Horror.
(c) Screwball comedy.
(d) Grindhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?

2. During the World War II, what types of films did the governments in Europe support?

3. What was the name of the period in England from 1963 to 1970?

4. 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?

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

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