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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. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(b) Gangster films were banned.
(c) The films became morality tales.
(d) Violence was removed.

2. What animal did Eadward Muybridge photograph?
(a) Dog.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Horse.
(d) Cat.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

2. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?

3. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?

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

5. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?

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