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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) Universal.
(b) Paramount.
(c) Warner Bros.
(d) RKO.

2. What genre of film became particularly popular in the early seventies?
(a) Blaxploitation.
(b) Screwball comedy.
(c) Horror.
(d) Grindhouse.

3. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?
(a) Song and dance.
(b) Improvisation.
(c) Violence.
(d) Nudity.

4. In what year did the Production Code become obsolete?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1969.

5. When Hitler came to power, what did Europe lose in their film industry?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Funding.
(c) Jewish artists.
(d) Freedom of movement to find new locations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?

2. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?

3. Which of the following was not one of the most popular genres to emerge from Japan's film industry?

4. In America during the late 1960s, what was the general mood of the youth?

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

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