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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which artist pushed the boundaries on sex and violence on film?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Fritz Lang.
(c) F.W. Murnau.
(d) Frida Kahlo.

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

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

5. What did the formation of the Patent Company force theaters showing their films to do?
(a) Pay taxes to the company.
(b) Credit all films to the Patent Company.
(c) Force women to sit in the shadows.
(d) Allow people to steal the original reels.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what company did Griffith work?

2. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?

3. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?

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

5. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hollywood join the war effort in the forties?

2. What were popular themes in early German films?

3. What were some of the themes explored in both French and Spanish films?

4. Describe the film industry in the USSR after the first World War.

5. How did the Film D'Art come to be?

6. In the early days of the film industry, how did Griffith and others begin making their films more appealing to widespread audiences?

7. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?

8. What led to the mass migration of film production from New York and New Jersey to California?

9. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?

10. Who were some of the great entertainers that emerged from the talkies in the early years of the film industry that helped revitalize the audience's flagging interest and why?

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