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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. Which actress was intensely private but was accused of being homosexual when gossip became a multi-million dollar industry?
(a) Grant.
(b) Chaplin.
(c) Garbo.
(d) Gilbert.

2. Gilbert's first talkie was referred to as ___________.
(a) "Shriekie."
(b) "Smackie."
(c) "Scarie."
(d) "Badie."

3. What was the name of Mae West's first silver screen appearance?
(a) "Midnight After Noon."
(b) "Day After Day."
(c) "Night After Night."
(d) "Morning After Morning."

4. What type of actors were labeled "Box Office Poison"?
(a) Pious and righteous.
(b) Difficult and obscene.
(c) Moral and delusional.
(d) Fake and gimmicky.

5. What happened in the same year Thelma Todd was found dead?
(a) Charlie Chaplin met Lita Grey.
(b) Mae West died.
(c) Fatty Arbuckle raped and killed a woman.
(d) Astor-Thorpe scandal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What put Frances Farmer in jail?

2. With whom did Gilbert have an unbreakable contract?

3. When was William fox cast out of his own company?

4. What did the court order Chaplin to do about Joan Barry?

5. Who discovered the tell-all journal kept by an actress?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the introduction of talkies significant?

2. Describe the protests for the invasion of privacy.

3. What did the term "box office poison" mean?

4. What was the "Red Tide"?

5. What role does suicide seem to play in the film industry and Hollywood?

6. How did the religious right react to the film industry, specifically the way different stars behaved?

7. Who was Lupe Velez?

8. Describe the "suicide syndrome" of the 1940s.

9. Why was Hopper so critical of Charlie Chaplin?

10. What transitions did the Jazz Age include?

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