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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film helped open up the world to the power of British filmmaking in the 1930s?
(a) "Strangers on a Train."
(b) "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
(c) "Rebecca."
(d) "The Once and Future King."

2. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1901.

3. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?
(a) The filmmakers inadvertently gave away state secrets.
(b) Films from the War Department had been leaked to Hollywood.
(c) The visuals were too realistic.
(d) The government wanted to keep Americans ignorant of the war overseas.

4. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Lev Kuleshov.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) Enst Lubitsch.

5. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Eli Whitney.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

2. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?

3. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?

4. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of the film-making committees in the Golden Age of the Studio?

5. What was Harry Langdon's film persona?

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