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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 British comedy troupe had a cinematic bright spot for their country's struggling film industry?
(a) Are You Being Served?
(b) Kids in the Hall.
(c) Absolutely Fabulous.
(d) Monty Python's Flying Circus.

2. What was the focus of Russian documentaries after World War II, as ordered by Stalin?
(a) Historical dramas.
(b) Sweeping epics.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Russian nationalism.

3. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?
(a) "Les Liaisons Dangerouse."
(b) "Madame Bovary."
(c) "La Cage aux Folles."
(d) "No Exit."

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

5. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?
(a) Independent films.
(b) Story lines.
(c) Star power.
(d) Studios.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the social revolution of the sixties in America, how did Hollywood compensate for their budget cuts?

2. As the studio system rose again in the 1980s, what area suffered?

3. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?

4. Due to the cinema's reflection of the American public's distrust of the government, what began to happen to the movie theater?

5. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did the Vietnam War change the culture of America in regards to Hollywood?

9. How did television damage the film industry?

10. In what ways did Japanese cinema flourish in the fifties?

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