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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which continent dominated the international film market in the sixties?
(a) North America.
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) South America.

2. From what country did director Ingmar Bergman come?
(a) Italy.
(b) Norway.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Germany.

3. Which of the following was not one of the most respected Japanese directors from the post-World War II era?
(a) Akira Kurosawa.
(b) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(c) Toshiro Mifune.
(d) Yasujiro Ozu.

4. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?
(a) Television.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Art galleries.

5. What country nearly wiped out the French film industry after World War II?
(a) Germany.
(b) America.
(c) Britain.
(d) Italy.

6. Which Eastern European country became a strong force in the international film community in the sixties?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Czechoslavakia.

7. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?
(a) Sweden.
(b) United States.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.

8. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?
(a) Improvisation.
(b) Nudity.
(c) Violence.
(d) Song and dance.

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

10. What was the main focus in French cinema in the seventies?
(a) Characters.
(b) Mood.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Plot.

11. Due to the cinema's reflection of the American public's distrust of the government, what began to happen to the movie theater?
(a) Theaters became segregated.
(b) Security had to be enforced in the theater.
(c) Attendance rose.
(d) Attendance declined.

12. 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) Cinerama.
(b) Rotoscope.
(c) 3D.
(d) CinemaScope.

13. What was significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?
(a) Films were used as a teaching aid.
(b) Universities began offering film courses.
(c) Universities opened up their own production companies for the students.
(d) Universities were mined for potential talent.

14. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?
(a) Fred Zinnemann.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Billy Wilder.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

15. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?
(a) The war forced studios to allow low-budget films to flourish.
(b) Many directors quit the industry after the war.
(c) Underground artists became mainstream.
(d) Film audiences went to television.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?

2. Which of the following directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?

3. In what year did the stock market crash in America, causing film investors to pull out of Hollywood?

4. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.

5. In what year was the Production Code revised in the decade following World War II?

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