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1			What two elements were most responsible for the restructuring of the studios?
			A)	legal action & the great depression
			B)	audience changes & legal action
			C)	political environment & audience changes
			D)	the great depression & the political environment
2			The first impacts of TV on the film industry included
			A)	a drive to produce spectacle over substance.
			B)	a drive to include more sex and violence.
			C)	the invention of the cinescope.
			D)	A & B
			E)	All of the above.
3			Which pattern did musicals fit?
			A)	They didn't fit any pattern, which accounts for their great success.
			B)	They favored spectacle over substance.
			C)	They depicted more sex than was permitted on TV.
			D)	They depicted more violence than was permitted on TV.
			E)	They were the first films to use cinescope.
4			By the 1980s, less than 3% of Americans' recreation dollars were spent at the movies. What happened?
			A)	The economic recession of the 1980s kept people away from the theaters.
			B)	People turned to more active recreation.
			C)	People spent less money on recreation overall.
			D)	All of the above.
5			Which innovation coincided with the 1950s move to the suburbs?
			A)	The drive-in theater
			B)	Color TV
			C)	Wide-screen TV
			D)	Talkies
			E)	All of the above.
6			This technique used a wide-angle "bug-eye" lens to record panoramic action on 65 mm film.
			A)	Cinemascope
			B)	Cinerama
			C)	3-D
			D)	Todd-AO
			E)	None of the above.
7			This technique allowed audience members to vote on alternative endings based on key decision points in the film.
			A)	Cinemascope
			B)	Cinerama
			C)	3-D
			D)	Todd-AO
			E)	None of the above.
8			Hollywood ended its "war" with TV
			A)	by creating TV series of their own.
			B)	by promoting films on TV.
			C)	by selling movie packages to TV networks.
			D)	All of the above.
			E)	None of the above.
9			Film images are prepared for TV screens
			A)	by cropping images only; the center of the screen becomes the TV image.
			B)	by panning, scanning and cropping.
			C)	by scanning and cropping.
			D)	by distorting a rectangular image into a square.
10			Since the development of DVD, consumers prefer to view films
			A)	formatted to fit the full TV screen.
			B)	in letterbox.
			C)	in split screen.
11			How are most films viewed today?
			A)	Most people see films in theaters during their original release.
			B)	Most people see films later on TV or other means of home viewing.
12			Weekly motion picture attendance hit its peak of 95 million in 1929; by 1953, the figure was half that.
			A)	True
			B)	False
13			In the 1950s, American TV was almost entirely to blame for the declining box office returns of Hollywood films.
			A)	True
			B)	False
14			Unlike 3-D, Cinerama was fairly inexpensive.
			A)	True
			B)	False
15			According to the text, the current craze for special effects has restored the special status of film and its ability to overwhelm the audience.
			A)	True
			B)	False