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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Eastern Europe in the seventies, what topic was generally avoided in their cinema?
(a) Violence.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Historical accuracy.
(d) Politics.

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

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

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

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

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

9. During the social revolution of the sixties in America, how did Hollywood compensate for their budget cuts?
(a) Salaries of the technical designers were cut.
(b) They invested heavily in Wall Street.
(c) Lower budget movies were promoted in the biggest studios.
(d) They cut back on the amount of films made.

10. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.
(a) Scripts.
(b) Genres.
(c) Location shoots.
(d) Languages.

11. What was the name of the cultural movement in Czechoslavakia during the sixties?
(a) Neo-Classical Revenge.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Long-Haired Freaks.
(d) Kafka's Moment.

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

13. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?
(a) United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?

2. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?

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

4. For what reasons did filmmakers simplify camera work in the 1980s?

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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