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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. During the World War II, what types of films did the governments in Europe support?
(a) Escapist comedies.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Historical dramas.
(d) Sweeping epics.

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

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

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

5. At the end of the 1950s, how many homes in America had a television set?
(a) 55%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 85%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?

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

3. In what year did the stock market crash in America, causing film investors to pull out of Hollywood?

4. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?

5. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why did the quality of mass-produced films diminish in the 1980s?

2. Why was Japan's golden age in film able to thrive throughout the World War II and beyond, despite the political turmoil?

3. How did the New Wave movement from France affect American movie trends in the 1970s?

4. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

5. Why did Hollywood studios flourish in the 1980s?

6. What were some of the trends in American films during the 1970s?

7. What were some of the prominent trends in European cinema in the 1950s?

8. How did Germany's film industry attempt to recover from World War II?

9. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

10. Why and how did commercial conglomerates help support the American film industry in the 1960s?

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