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

2. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?
(a) Heavy financial losses.
(b) Several loans were received from the government.
(c) Massive financial gains.
(d) Foreign investors took an interest and guaranteed massive kick-backs.

3. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1952.

4. What country nearly wiped out the French film industry after World War II?
(a) America.
(b) Italy.
(c) Britain.
(d) Germany.

5. From what country did director Ingmar Bergman come?
(a) Italy.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Norway.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the cultural movement in Czechoslavakia during the sixties?

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

3. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?

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

5. What sort of music became popular for movie soundtracks in the sixties?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

5. How did television damage the film industry?

6. What was the New Wave movement in France?

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

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

9. Discuss Method acting.

10. How did the Soviet Union change Czechoslovakia's film industry in the 1960s?

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