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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What style of acting became popular in films in the 1950s?
(a) Meisner.
(b) Chekhovian.
(c) Method.
(d) Brechtian.

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) Heavy financial losses.
(c) Massive financial gains.
(d) Several loans were received from the government.

3. 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.

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

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

6. Which of the following was not one of the major national movements in America during the 1970s?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Populism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Marxism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. In the seventies, upon what did German cinema begin to reflect?
(a) Sexuality in youth.
(b) Brechtian principles.
(c) Pop culture.
(d) Nazi era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was significant about the marketing tactics of the American film studios in the eighties?

2. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

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

4. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?

5. Which continent dominated the international film market in the sixties?

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