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Film Noir and Society Quiz
Film Noir and Society Quiz
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This is to prepare students for the 3.4 external exam.
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1
What aspect of Film Noir did the image below influence?
Film Noir Narratives
Social Anxiety
Representation of Women
Dark Worldview
2
What does this image from the 1950's most reflect?
Consumer culture
The new feminism
The pressure in society to return to normal
The clean revolution
3
Which factor best explains the decline and fall of Film Noir?
Television
Postwar optimism
Decline of Hollywood
Rise of European cinema
4
Which of these guidelines
was not
in the Hays Code from 1930?
Obscenity is forbidden
Gun violence is banned
The use of the flag shall be respected
No film should ridicule religious faith
5
Which Hollywood film genre
did not
influence Film Noir?
Gangster films
Horror movies
Neo-Noir
Murder Mysteries
6
Who is the flawed anti-hero in this scene?
Walter
Jeff
Chico
Robert
7
Name the character type that was a direct influence on the Femme Fatale character?
The Seductress
Vampira
The Vamp
Femme Noir
8
The images below are associated most with what historical event?
Cold War
Women gaining the right to vote
World War II
Industrial Revolution
9
What Film Noir convention is missing from this clip?
Low Key Lighting
Extreme Camera Angles
Corrupt Environment
Femme Fatale
10
Which factor most influenced the structure of Film Noir narratives?
American network radio
Pulp fiction novels
Social anxiety
Hollywood gangster films
11
Which of the following influences on Film Noir would be most suited to this image?
Cynicism about law and government
Anxiety about modern life
True crime fiction
Hollywood studio system
12
Which artistic technique from the Renaissance is most linked with Film Noir lighting?
Baroque
Intonaco
Giornata
Chiaroscuro
13
What does this image relate to in American history?
Prohibition
The Hays Code
The Great Depression
Budweiser
14
The German film "Metropolis" reflects the cultural fear of which of these developments?
Urbanization
Marxism
Gambling
Escalators
15
What
is not
associated with postwar American anxiety?
The Cold War
Nuclear Arms Race
Feminism
The economy for returning soldiers
16
Which word below best describes the meaning of "Straight down the line" in "Double Indemnity?"
Fear
Epiphany
Fatalism
Cynicism
17
Who wrote the classic Noir novels, "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice?"
Dean R. Cane
Orson Welles
James M. Cain
Raymond Chandler
18
Identify the director of "The Killers."
Sid Moore
Orson Welles
Robert Bergiac
Robert Siodmak
19
This film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," is an example of what movement?
Abstract Expressionism
German Expressionism
German Socialism
New Romanticsm
20
What ended the practice of block booking for Hollywood movie studios?
The March on Hollywood
The Hays Code
Government law
Supreme Court ruling