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1
Set in Post-WWII Paris, France
The Red Balloon
Double Indemnity
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Modern Times
2
Humor used to criticize an idea, a person, or an institution to improve society is called
Sarcasm
Satire
Parody
Irony
3
From what film is this partial image taken?
Dracula
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Nosferatu
Frankenstein
4
Which American industrial city served as the inspiration for
Eraserhead
?
Cleveland
Chicago
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
5
What is this scene satirizing (criticizing) ?
Enlightenment Ideals
Codes of Chivalry
Corruption of the Catholic Church
Divine Right of Kings
6
The character of Long Duk Dong in
Sixteen Candles
is described best as
a dynamic character
a stock character
a protagonist
a round character
7
Which filmmaker today
most
overtly
demonstrates
the influences of German Expressionism?
Tim Burton
M. Night Shyamalan
John Hughes
David Lynch
8
In which of the following films is this music used?
Lamb to the Slaughter
Psycho
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
9
Who directed
The Shining
?
Alfred Hitchcock
John Hughes
Stanley Kubrick
Tim Burton
10
Who directed both
Rear Window
and
Psycho
?
David Lynch
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Tim Burton
11
What is this scene satirizing (criticizing) ?
Divine Right of Kings
Enlightenment Principles
Codes of Chivalry
Autonomous Collective
12
Who directed
2001, A Space Odyssey
?
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
13
Which film below do you rate as being the most interesting in terms of artistic achievement?
Dreams
Rear Window
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
14
Which is the
best
description of the
theme
,
overall
, in Kurosawa's
Dreams
?
Science is bad; nature is good.
Nature is powerful, and we should be fearful of it.
Obedience is always better than curiosity.
We must live with nature and respect its boundaries.
15
The arrangement of everything that appears in the screen frame is called
stage set
mise-en-scène
German Expressionism
the decorations
16
What features of German Expressionism does this frame-still
NOT
show?
Contrast between light and dark
Shadows
Distorted images
Soft, romantic lighting
17
The painter of this picture was a major influence on German Expressionism.
Marc Chagall
Edvard Munch
Wassily Kandinsky
Vincent van Gogh
18
Who directed
Double Indemnity
?
Alfred Hitchcock
Charlie Chaplin
Billy Wilder
Stanley Kubrick
19
What hotel in Colorado served as the inspiration for
The Shining
?
Elevation Hotel, Crested Butte
The Stanley, Estes Park
The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs
The Brown Palace, Denver
20
Which is
NOT
associated with art films?
Attracts a small audience
Focus is on the aesthetic
Experimental
Seeks big commercial profits
21
Filmstrips coated in THIS substance made them more durable.
Celluloid
Aluminum
Silicon
Plastic
22
What does this scene from
The Red Balloon
most likely
symbolize
? Consider the story context.
That the world is a good place, after all.
That the spirit of hope and innocence is still alive.
That we can achieve our dreams and fly.
That we can rise above our enemies.
23
Which of the following satisfies
ALL
of the criteria for being an
art film
?
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
Sixteen Candles
Psycho
24
Peepshow style device that captured moving pictures
Viewmaster
Kinetoscope
Pictogram
Camera Obscura
25
What is the
climax
of
Psycho
?
When Lila finds Mrs. Bates in the basement.
When Marion is stabbed in the shower.
When Arbogast is stabbed on the stairs.
When Marion absconds with $40,000.
26
Which director got his start in Vaudeville (stage comedy)?
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Tim Burton
Charlie Chaplin
27
When did
German Expressionism
emerge and develop?
1934-1945
1945-1960
1918-1933
28
Expressionism is largely meant to
evoke and express emotion or a psychological state of mind.
reflect the natural world as accurately as possible.
express the German way of thinking.
29
Which literary element in
Rear Window
is most evident?
Symbol
Setting
Characterization
Point of View
30
Who directed
Dreams
?
Akira Kurosawa
M. Night Shyamalan
Ang Lee
Tim Burton
31
The repeated use of a passage of
music
in film is called
The soundtrack
A leitmotif
A refrain
A theme
32
From what early film was this image taken?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Frankenstein (1910)
Nosferatu (1922)
33
In what part of the plot structure does this scene from
Psycho
take place?
The falling action
The climax
The exposition
The rising action
34
What is the
cultural significance
of this picture?
It is a scene from The Great Train Robbery (1905).
Proves that horses can lift ALL feet off the ground at once.
It was the 1st motion picture ever made in America (1878).
It is many shots of only one horse.
35
Which is a recurring
motif
(as opposed to a symbol) in
The Sixth Sense
?
the bumblebee pendant
the color red
Cole's dad's glasses
36
This is the
Femme Fatale
from which famous Film Noir?
Rear Window
Psycho
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Double Indemnity
37
What is this scene satirizing (criticizing) ? Click
ALL
that apply.
Gay discos
Homer's assumptions about "real men."
Gay men
Homer's bigotry exposed in his worst nightmare.
38
What does this scene from
Modern Times
symbolize?
"The factory worker's" job is dangerous and exploitative.
"The factory worker" is a cog in the industrial machine.
"The factory worker's" job creates a wheel of insanity.
39
Which of the following is a characteristic of Film Noir? Click all that apply.
The theme is often, "Crime does not pay."
Typically involves one or more murders
The female lead is both victim and villain.
The protagonist is morally upright.
40
Who directed
Nosferatu
?
F. W. Murnau
Billy Wilder
Albert Lamorisse
Martin Heidegger
41
Who directed
The Breakfast Club
?
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lynch
John Hughes
Stanley Kubrick
42
Who directed
Eraserhead?
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lynch
Stanley Kubric
M. Night Shyamalan
43
Who directed
The Red Balloon
?
Billy Wilder
Albert Lamorisse
F. W. Murnau
M. Night Shyamalan
44
What imagery did David Lynch
NOT
use in
Eraserhead
to evoke a bleak world?
grit, tar, and oily substances
fighting animals
industrial sounds
black and white
45
Which one of the following characters is
static
?
Norman Bates (Psycho)
Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club)
Marion Crane (Psycho)
Jeff Jeffries (Rear Window)
46
What kind of character is Jack Torrance from
The Shining
?
Static
Dynamic
Stock
Flat
47
What is the effect of the music upon these images from
The Shining
? Click
ALL
that apply.
Relaxing
Exalting
Menacing
Eerie
48
Which is
NOT
a
theme
in Chaplin’s
Modern Times
?
Life & Death
The Perils of Industrial Society
The Individual vs. Society
Man vs. Machine
