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1
Which word best defines genre?
A)Category
B)Type
C)Kind
D)All of the above
2
Which of the following is NOT a film genre?
A)Comedy
B)Crime
C)Disaster
D)Horror
E)All of the above are genres
3
What is the relationship between romantic comedy and social class?
A)In romantic comedy, there is no difference between the social classes
B)Comedies segregate classes by only featuring one class in any one film
C)Classes are ultimately divided by the end of a romantic comedy
D)Classes are ultimately united by the end of a romantic comedy
4
In these films, like Big and American Pie, boys try to make the leap into manhood.
A)Integration and regeneration of society
B)Reforming the workplace
C)Rites of passage
D)Disintegration and disorder
E)None of the above
5
These films show that American democracy ultimately does not work.
A)Integration and regeneration of society
B)Reforming the workplace
C)Rites of passage
D)Disintegration and disorder
E)None of the above
6
In these films, like the Marx Brothers comedies, the elite class is brought down by chaos.
A)Integration and regeneration of society
B)Reforming the workplace
C)Rites of passage
D)Disintegration and disorder
E)None of the above
7
Trading Places uses this narrative pattern by replacing a white business executive with a poor black man off the street.
A)Release of the repressed
B)Capitalism works
C)Reforming prostitution
D)None of the above
8
Bringing Up Baby uses this narrative pattern by unleashing Katherine Hepburn (and a leopard) on mild-mannered Cary Grant.
A)Release of the repressed
B)Capitalism works
C)Reforming prostitution
D)None of the above
9
Who is comedy usually targeted to?
A)Working class
B)Middle class
C)Upper class
D)Comedy isn't about class
10
What form of comedy do Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton share?
A)Romantic comedy
B)Screwball comedy
C)Slapstick comedy
D)Their styles were so different that they cannot be compared
11
Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, this silent-era comic usually played middle class characters.
A)John Barrymore
B)George Burns
C)John Chapin
D)Harold Lloyd
E)None of the silent-era comics played middle-class characters
12
How is screwball comedy different from romantic comedy?
A)It doesn't center on a romantic relationship
B)It combines high and low humor in a single film
C)Screwball comedies were only made in color
D)They don't differ at all
13
Which of the following contributed to the strict censorship codes of the late 1930s that shaped screwball comedies?
A)Pressure from the Catholic church
B)Government regulation
C)Both were factors
D)Neither were factors
14
Whatever a society represses frequently turns up in comedy film.
A)True
B)False
15
Ethnic and racial humor was never common in Hollywood films until the Civil Rights Movement paved the way for treating issues openly.
A)True
B)False







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