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

2. In what decade were silent films perfected?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1930s.

3. What was Harry Langdon's film persona?
(a) The baby.
(b) The swashbuckler.
(c) The ladies' man.
(d) The tramp.

4. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) Prohibition.

5. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?
(a) Travel.
(b) War.
(c) Religious.
(d) Actor's biographies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of performers were ideal candidates for comedy shorts in the 1920s?

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

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

4. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?

5. When Hitler came to power, what did Europe lose in their film industry?

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