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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?
(a) Musicals.
(b) Thrillers.
(c) Comedies.
(d) Action.

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

3. In England in the 1930s, what sociologist announced that films could be a powerful tool for social reform?
(a) John Grierson.
(b) Alexander Korda.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Orson Welles.

4. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?
(a) Sergei Einstein.
(b) Ernst Lubitsch.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Fritz Lang.

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

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

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

8. When Hitler came to power, what did Europe lose in their film industry?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Funding.
(c) Jewish artists.
(d) Freedom of movement to find new locations.

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

10. After what major event did film gain popularity in the USSR?
(a) Death of Rasputin.
(b) Russian Revolution.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

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

12. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?
(a) It would be harder to follow the plot.
(b) They would demand their money back.
(c) They would dislike the actors.
(d) They would start getting bored.

13. 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) The films became morality tales.
(b) Gangster films were banned.
(c) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(d) Violence was removed.

14. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?
(a) Laurel and Hardy.
(b) Abbott and Costello.
(c) Marx Brothers.
(d) Wilber and Woolsley.

15. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?
(a) The studios lured them to America.
(b) Nazi persecution.
(c) Political exiling.
(d) Low production values.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

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

3. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?

4. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?

5. Why did the War Department in America ban some of the political movies made during World War II?

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