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

2. What popular American film from the eighties was one of the most successful mixes of both animation and live action?
(a) "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
(b) "Cool World."
(c) "Ghostbusters."
(d) "Fritz the Cat."

3. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?
(a) Videocassettes.
(b) 3D.
(c) IMax.
(d) Surround sound.

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

5. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Art galleries.
(c) Television.
(d) Cinema.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the obliteration of the Production Code in the sixties, what type of films became popular in the seventies?

2. During the early seventies in America cinema, which of the following was not one of the main themes explored?

3. What region became renowned for their film adaptations of literary classics?

4. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?

5. How did the end of the Vietnam War affect the content of American films?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was the French film industry nearly destroyed because of World War II?

3. Discuss Method acting.

4. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

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

6. How did television damage the film industry?

7. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

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

9. As the studios declined with the invention of the television, how did Americans' tastes in film subject begin to change?

10. In the 1970s, how did West Germany start to address their role in World War II?

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