CHAP1: 10/10
1. Who was the "lone wolf" American inventor who received many of the
early patents for television technology?
Nicola Tesla
Philo T. Farnsworth
Vladimir Zworykin
Thomas Edison
2. Vladimir Zworykin be
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CHAP1: 10/10
1. Who was the "lone wolf" American inventor who received many of the
early patents for television technology?
Nicola Tesla
Philo T. Farnsworth
Vladimir Zworykin
Thomas Edison
2. Vladimir Zworykin began his American career as an engineer for the
Westinghouse company in Pittsburgh. Eventually he was allowed to follow his
interest in television by being traded to another company. What was the
name of that company?
General Electric
Philco Television
Westinghouse
Radio Corporation of America
3. What were the "big three" early television networks?
Group of answer choices
MTV, NBC and CBS
CBS, NBC and ABC
Dumont, PBS and NBC
PBS, CBS and NBC
4. Which of the following was not a promise contained in the "G I Bill of
Rights"?
Loans for new homes
Training for Commercial Pilots Licenses
Money for a College Degree
Loans for small businesses
5. What was the result of the Paramount Consent Decree?
The major studios were forced to sell off their film rental companies.
None of the others answers.
The major studios were forced to sell their production studios.
The major studios were forced to sell the theaters they owned.
6. In 1952 Meriam C. Cooper introduced a new wide screen movie format.
What was it called?
Group of answer choices
Super Panavision
Cinerama
Cinemascope
VistaVision
7. What was the first film made with the Super Panavision 70 format?
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Oklahoma
Around the World in 80 Days
The Robe
The Big Fisherman
8. What was the first Three Dimension film of the fifties?
Bwana Devil
Around the World in 80 Days
The House of Wax
South Pacific
9. The Technicolor company enjoyed dominance in the movie industry until a
much less expensive technology was developed. What was the name of the
new film?
Eastmancolor 5250
Fugicolor
Kodachrome
Gaumont Color
10. Who was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CBS (The Columbia
Broadcasting System)?
David Sarnoff
Michael Eisner
William S. Paley
Michael Goodsen
CHAP2: 8/10
1. What is the name of the congressional committee that investigated
Communism in the movie industry?
Group of answer choices
The Senate Anti-Communism Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Anti-Communist Committee
The Senate Un-American Activities Committee
2. What is the name of the production company founded by John Ford and
Meriam C. Cooper?
Group of answer choices
Republic Pictures
Lone Star Productions
Argosy Pictures
Universal
3. What film earned John his Fourth and final Academy Award.
Group of answer choices
The Quiet Man
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The Horse Soldiers
Mr. Roberts
The Searchers
4. Which director wrote and directed the film, Ace in the Hole?
Group of answer choices
Alfred Hitchcock
Cecil B. De Mille
Howard Hawks
Billy Wilder
5. Who directed the fifties remake of he 1925 hit film, Ben Hur?
Group of answer choices
Anthony Mann
Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hawks
William Wyler
6. Who directed the film, Baby Doll?
Group of answer choices
Howard Hawks
George Stevens
Elia Kazan
Billy Wilder
7. What established director began his career as an editor, most notably,
editing Citizen Kane?
Group of answer choices
John Ford
Robert Wise
Elia Kazan
Billy Wilder
8. Which of the following is not an example of movies aimed at Teen-agers?
Group of answer choices
Earth vs. the Spider
Dracula
Live Fast, Die Young
King Creole
9. Which of the following is not among the rising stars of the fifties?
Group of answer choices
Jack Lemon
Doris Day
Kirk Douglas
Bette Davis
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10. Which of the following is not an example of the elements of Film Noir?
Group of answer choices
Femme Fatales
Expressionistic visual style
Colorful Villains
Hopeful stories with happy endings
CHAP3: 10/10
1. What film movement begins with the film, Roma: Citta Aperta (Rome:
Open City)?
Group of answer choices
Film Noir
Surrealism
Italian Neorealism
Expressionism
Flag question: Question 2
Question 21 pts
2. Which of the following films is not a film from Vittorio De Sica's Neorealist
Trilogy?
Group of answer choices
Sciuscia (Shoeshine)
The Bicycle Thief
Umberto D.
A Pilot Returns
Flag question: Question 3
Question 31 pts
3. Which of the following was Federico Fellini's breakthrough film as
Writer/Director?
Group of answer choices
L'Avventura
Il Grido (The Cry)
La Dolce Vita
La Notte
Flag question: Question 4
Question 41 pts
4. What film by Karel Reisz combines "working class hero' style films with
movies set in "Swinging London" films of the sixties?
Group of answer choices
The Loved One
Tom Jones
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
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This Sporting Life
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Question 51 pts
5. Which of the following started a film club at the Sorbonne University which
became popular with the filmmakers of the French New Wave?
Group of answer choices
Claude Chabrol
Francois Truffaut
Andre Bazin
Orson Welles
Flag question: Question 6
Question 61 pts
6. Which of the following is not an example of New Wave film theory?
Group of answer choices
The Auteur Theory
Cinema Verite'
The Long Take
Dialectic Editing
Flag question: Question 7
Question 71 pts
7. What was Francois Truffaut's first feature length film?
Group of answer choices
400 Blows
Breathless
The Bride Wore Black
Band of Outsiders
Flag question: Question 8
Question 81 pts
8. Which director made the film, The Seventh Seal?
Group of answer choices
Agnes Varda
Claude Chabrol
Ingmar Bergman
Jean Luc Godard
Flag question: Question 9
Question 91 pts
9. Which Japanese director made the film, Rashamon?
Group of answer choices
Akira Kurosawa
None of the above
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Toshiro Mifune
Andrej Wajda
Flag question: Question 10
Question 101 pts
10. Which of the following films was made by Roman Polanski?
Group of answer choices
Knife in the Water
Peter and Pavla
Fireman's Ball
Loves of a Blonde
CHAP4: 9/10
1. Which director began a movie franchise with comedian, Peter Sellers,
playing Inspector Jacques Clouseau?
Blake Edwards
2. Which director's problems with American censors caused him to take the
production of Lolita to England?
Stanley Kubrick
3. What is the title of Richard Lester's second film with The Beatles?
A Hard Days Night
4. Who played the character, Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate?
Dustin Hoffman
5. Who directed the 1969 film, Easy Rider?
Dennis Hopper
6. Who directed Bonnie and Clyde?
Arthur Penn
7. What was Warren Beatty's first acting job when he followed his sister to
Hollywood?
The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillis/ maybe Splendor in the grass
8. Who played the character, Bonnie< in Bonnie and Clyde?
Faye Dunaway
9. Who played a Philadelphia homicide detective in In the Heat of the Night?
Sidney Poitier
10. Which Paul Newman film takes place on a chain gang in a southern
prison?
Cool Hand Luke
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CHAP5: 9/10
1. What 1970 film, directed by Robert Altman, relies heavily on
improvisational acting?
MASH
2. What 1972 film is Clint Eastman's debut as a director?
Play Misty for Me
3. What was Frances Coppola's first film for his American Zoetrope company?
The Rain People
4. Who did Francis Coppola hire as cinematographer for The Godfather?
Gordon Willis
5. What 1975 Stanley Kubrick film stars Ryan O'Neal as an Irish rogue and
gambler?
Berry Lyndon
6. What 1977 Steven Spielberg film features Francois Truffaut as a scientist
planning for human kind's first meeting with aliens?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. What 1978 film was made to cash in on the popularity of Saturday Night
Live?
Annie Hall
8. What 1979 film stars Peter Sellers as Chance Gardener?
Being there
9. What 1975 film features Jack Nicholson in one of his greatest roles?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. Who produced the film, Chinatown.
Robert Evans
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