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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Violence was removed.
(b) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(c) The films became morality tales.
(d) Gangster films were banned.

2. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?
(a) "Strangers on a Train."
(b) "The Once and Future King."
(c) "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
(d) "Rebecca."

3. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Stage.
(b) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.
(c) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.
(d) Radio.

4. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) Sexual innuendo.
(b) The accents of foreign stars.
(c) The political aspects.
(d) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.

5. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?
(a) Stabs.
(b) Cannons.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) Screams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?

2. In what style did the French produce their films?

3. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?

4. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?

5. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Aside from the Kinetoscope, what were some early advances in technology that led to the creation of the moving picture?

2. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?

3. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?

4. How did studios cater to the audience's wishes in the Golden Age of the Studio.

5. In the early days of the film industry, how did Griffith and others begin making their films more appealing to widespread audiences?

6. Who were some of the great entertainers that emerged from the talkies in the early years of the film industry that helped revitalize the audience's flagging interest and why?

7. How did the Film D'Art come to be?

8. How did the advent of "talkies" change both technical and acting aspects of film?

9. How did Hollywood join the war effort in the forties?

10. What were the differences between early films from the United States and Europe?

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