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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. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?
(a) War.
(b) Travel.
(c) Actor's biographies.
(d) Religious.

2. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) Jean Louis Meissonier.
(b) Eadward Muybridge.
(c) William Dickson.
(d) Norman Raff.

3. Which artist pushed the boundaries on sex and violence on film?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) F.W. Murnau.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) Frida Kahlo.

4. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?
(a) Cinematographer.
(b) Story.
(c) Lighting.
(d) Music.

5. In what era did early film begin to primarily grow?
(a) Silent Era.
(b) Nickelodean Era.
(c) Golden Era.
(d) Moving Era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Harold Lloyd's trademark?

2. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?

3. What studio did William Fox and Carl Laemmle eventually form?

4. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the financial status of American films and how this led to the rise of the studios during the early years of Hollywood's Golden Age of the Studio.

2. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?

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

4. Who were some of the popular stars from the 1920s and of what did their acts consist?

5. Who was David Wark Griffith?

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

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

8. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?

9. Discuss the innovative techniques developed by Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Renoir.

10. Who were some of the great directors and their innovative storytelling techniques from Hollywood in the 1940s?

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