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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. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?
(a) Zoetrope.
(b) Glass lantern.
(c) Rotoscope.
(d) Rear projector.

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

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

4. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Radio.
(b) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.
(c) Stage.
(d) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.

5. The two main regions involved in film production before the move to California were New York and _________.
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Maine.
(d) Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the formation of the Patent Company force theaters showing their films to do?

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

3. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

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

5. In what decade were silent films perfected?

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