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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 technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Television.
(c) Radio.
(d) Telegraph.

2. After what major event did film gain popularity in the USSR?
(a) World War II.
(b) Death of Rasputin.
(c) World War I.
(d) Russian Revolution.

3. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?
(a) Period dramas.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Musicals.
(d) Surrealist.

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

5. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?
(a) Theater of the Absurd.
(b) Theater of Cruelty.
(c) Brechtian.
(d) Expressionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

2. Why did the independent filmmakers head for California while the Patent Company existed?

3. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?

4. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?

5. How large was the tax on foreign film earning in Britain after World War II?

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