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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?
(a) Rotoscope.
(b) CinemaScope.
(c) Cinerama.
(d) 3D.

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

3. How did the end of the Vietnam War affect the content of American films?
(a) Audiences began to look more for "traditional values" again.
(b) Audiences demanded less censorship.
(c) Audience attendance in movie theaters declined, allowing the industry to experiment more.
(d) Audiences demanded more widespread diversity within the industry.

4. As the studio system rose again in the 1980s, what area suffered?
(a) Musicals.
(b) Foreign films.
(c) Independent films.
(d) Theatre.

5. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?
(a) Death of Marilyn Monroe.
(b) Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Deaths of the Kennedy brothers.
(d) Vietnam War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the comic humorist from Japan who rose to prominence in the eighties?

2. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?

3. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?

4. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?

5. Upon what did Irish films focus in the nineties?

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