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

2. Which continent dominated the international film market in the sixties?
(a) Asia.
(b) North America.
(c) Europe.
(d) South America.

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

4. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?
(a) Pinter Pause realism.
(b) Kitchen Sink realism.
(c) Uprising Cockney.
(d) Chekhovian absurdity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?

3. Which of the following directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?

4. What was the name of France's sudden revitalization in their film industry in the 1950s?

5. What hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Great Britain's entertainment industry fare in the 1970s?

2. What were some of the political issues that made their way into 1970s Hollywood?

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

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

5. What regulations changed in 1960s Hollywood, as well as technical advances?

6. How did television damage the film industry?

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

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

9. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

10. How did the invention of the videocassette simplify camerawork?

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