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

2. What editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Sergei Einstein.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) Lev Kulshov.

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

4. What studio did William Fox and Carl Laemmle eventually form?
(a) MGM.
(b) Fox.
(c) Universal.
(d) Paramount.

5. Which world-class, renowned filmmaker stayed made propaganda films for Hitler?
(a) F.W. Murnau.
(b) Fritz Lang.
(c) Max Ophuls.
(d) Leni Reifenstahl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?

3. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?

4. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?

2. 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?

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

4. What were the differences between early films from the United States and Europe?

5. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?

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

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

8. Aside from the Kinetoscope, what were some early advances in technology that led to the creation of the moving picture?

9. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?

10. Who were some of the great directors and their innovative storytelling techniques from Hollywood in the 1940s?

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