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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
(a) The strange voices of previously-silent stars.
(b) Sexual innuendo.
(c) The accents of foreign stars.
(d) The political aspects.

2. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?
(a) Denouncement of British films from Hitler.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Funding.
(d) Bomb threats.

3. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Screams.
(c) Cannons.
(d) Stabs.

4. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?
(a) The war forced studios to allow low-budget films to flourish.
(b) Many directors quit the industry after the war.
(c) Underground artists became mainstream.
(d) Film audiences went to television.

5. What hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?
(a) Communists.
(b) Women's liberation.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Homosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?

2. In what era did early film begin to primarily grow?

3. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?

4. During World War II, which director became known for his films that examined sex, greed, and the inherent sadism of humans?

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

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