A) He created Within Our Gates. B) He directed Django Unchained. C) He made Intolerance in 1916. D) He produced The Fall of a Nation.
A) Oscar Micheaux B) John W. Noble C) D.W. Griffith D) Thomas Dixon Jr.
A) Glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. B) The invasion of the United States by European monarchies. C) Depiction of African American hardships during Jim Crow laws. D) Criticism of prejudice.
A) John W. Noble B) Oscar Micheaux C) Thomas Dixon Jr. D) D.W. Griffith
A) To depict African American hardships during Jim Crow laws. B) To criticize pacifism in WWI. C) To glorify the Ku Klux Klan. D) To challenge The Birth of a Nation.
A) D.W. Griffith B) John W. Noble C) Oscar Micheaux D) Quentin Tarantino
A) To criticize pacifism in WWI. B) To depict African American hardships during Jim Crow laws. C) To glorify the Ku Klux Klan. D) To counter the falsehoods of The Birth of a Nation.
A) A cross burning at Stone Mountain. B) The release of Within Our Gates. C) The premiere of Intolerance. D) The release of The Birth of a Race.
A) Uninteresting B) Quaint C) Racist D) Brilliant
A) Producing Django Unchained. B) Directing Within Our Gates. C) Creating The Fall of a Nation. D) Making Intolerance and Broken Blossoms.
A) The portrayal of the Civil War. B) The glorification of African Americans. C) His own thesis about the South's virtue. D) The depiction of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.
A) A glorification of African Americans. B) A fully formed visual language for cinema. C) A critique of European monarchies. D) A celebration of the Ku Klux Klan.
A) Its depiction of the Civil War. B) Its critique of European monarchies. C) Its glorification of African Americans. D) Its portrayal of black men as savage.
A) The refounding of the Ku Klux Klan. B) The production of The Fall of a Nation. C) The premiere of Intolerance. D) The release of Within Our Gates.
A) To challenge its themes. B) To promote African American rights. C) To recruit Klansmen. D) To criticize European monarchies.
A) It initiated many advances in film-making technique. B) It glorified the Ku Klux Klan. C) It depicted African Americans positively. D) It was unoriginal and uninspiring.
A) Its lack of historical accuracy. B) Its beauty despite its injustice and falsehood. C) Its depiction of African Americans. D) Its portrayal of the Civil War.
A) They became treasures of world cinema. B) They depicted African American hardships. C) They glorified the Ku Klux Klan. D) They criticized European monarchies.
A) The national glory of the South. B) The human cost of combat. C) The heroism of African Americans. D) The virtues of the Ku Klux Klan.
A) It criticizes European monarchies. B) It shows that their wealth comes from slaves. C) It glorifies the Ku Klux Klan. D) It depicts African Americans positively.
A) It criticizes European monarchies. B) It celebrates African American achievements. C) It glorifies the Ku Klux Klan. D) It implies a dance of death foreshadowing destruction.
A) They found it obscene and horrifying. B) They praised its realism. C) They ignored its significance. D) They cheered for the Klan.
A) It depicts African Americans positively. B) It criticizes European monarchies. C) It is celebrated as a heroic act. D) It seems unjust and cruel to modern audiences.
A) Lillian Gish B) Mary Pickford C) Dorothy Gish D) Charlie Chaplin
A) At the first Academy Awards ceremony. B) On Broadway as part of a theatrical event. C) Inside the White House, watched by President Woodrow Wilson D) In Paris during an international film festival.
A) Frank E. Woods B) Harry Aitken C) Thomas Dixon Jr. D) Lillian Gish
A) A director's commentary track. B) A 13-page Souvenir Program C) Behind-the-scenes footage. D) An interview with D. W. Griffith.
A) Elsie Stoneman B) Margaret Cameron C) Ben Cameron D) Phil Stoneman
A) Union family B) Southern family C) Northern family D) Confederate family
A) Phil Stoneman B) Elsie Stoneman C) Margaret Cameron D) Ben Cameron
A) Union soldiers B) Southern militia C) Confederate soldiers D) Northern militia
A) Mrs. Cameron B) Elsie Stoneman C) Margaret Cameron D) A Confederate soldier
A) Elsie Stoneman B) Mrs. Cameron C) Ben Cameron D) Phil Stoneman
A) Jeff the blacksmith B) Stoneman C) Ben Cameron D) Silas Lynch
A) Legislation allowing mixed-race marriages. B) Reinstatement of Confederate symbols. C) Abolition of slavery laws. D) Prohibition of Klan activities.
A) Undercover Klansman spies get the attention. B) The Klan disbands. C) Silas Lynch leaves immediately. D) She is rescued by Ben Cameron.
A) Richard Howell Gleaves B) Leroy McAfee C) Alonzo J. Ransier D) Thaddeus Stevens
A) Film critics B) West Point engineers C) Civil War historians D) Hollywood directors
A) New York City B) Big Bear Lake, California C) Atlanta, Georgia D) Washington D.C.
A) $10,000 B) $40,000 C) $100,000 D) $50,000
A) 150,000 feet B) 100,000 feet C) 50,000 feet D) 200,000 feet
A) Florence Lawrence B) Madame Sul-Te-Wan C) Mary Pickford D) Lillian Gish
A) The Fourteenth Amendment B) The Thirteenth Amendment C) The Fifteenth Amendment D) The Sixteenth Amendment
A) 150,000 feet B) 13,000 feet C) 100,000 feet D) 50,000 feet
A) Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War B) Battles and Leaders of the Civil War C) The Soldier in Our Civil War D) The Leopard's Spots
A) Carli Elinor B) Joseph Carl Breil C) Richard Wagner D) DJ Spooky
A) Franz von Suppé B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Carl Maria von Weber D) Richard Wagner
A) 1.5 million people B) 3 million people C) 500,000 people D) 4 million people
A) April 15, 1915 B) March 2, 1915 C) January 1, 1915 D) February 18, 1915
A) Griffith B) A member of the Klan C) Josephus Daniels D) The Secretary of the Navy
A) 1925 B) 1940 C) 1930 D) 1918
A) 44 weeks B) 30 weeks C) 60 weeks D) 50 weeks
A) Booker T. Washington B) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise C) Jane Addams D) Mary Childs Nerney
A) Organized demonstrations B) Neglected to respond C) Hosted private screenings D) Wrote supportive articles
A) "a group of unbiased historians" B) "the Negro Intermarriage Society" C) "a supportive organization for filmmakers" D) "the Civil Rights Champions"
A) Mary Pickford B) Charles Henry Parkhurst C) Dolly Dalrymple D) Katharine DuPre Lumpkin
A) 5 B) 20 C) 15 D) 10
A) 1992 B) 2000 C) 1975 D) 1988
A) Reconstruction was a time of great progress for African-Americans. B) Reconstruction was an unmitigated disaster. C) Reconstruction had no significant impact on American society. D) Reconstruction brought equality between races.
A) Marxist Historiography B) Progressive School C) Dunning School D) Annales School
A) The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln B) Gone with the Wind C) Roots D) Uncle Tom's Cabin
A) An abolitionist leader B) Lydia Hamilton Smith C) A fictional character in The Birth of a Nation D) A Southern belle from the film
A) W. E. B. DuBois B) Eric Foner C) Franklin D) E. Merton Coulter
A) Alfred Hitchcock B) Jonathan Kline C) Orson Welles D) D.W. Griffith
A) Sepia tone B) Black and white filming C) Color tinting D) Hand coloring each frame
A) Flashbacks B) Voice-over narration C) Crosscutting D) Split-screen
A) Virtual reality filming B) Time-lapse photography C) Stop-motion animation D) Tracking shots
A) Jump cuts B) Wipe transitions C) Fade-outs D) Dissolves
A) 1975 B) 1992 C) 1969 D) 2015
A) 2002 B) 1975 C) 1969 D) 1998
A) Kino Video B) David Shepard C) Photoplay Productions D) Epoch
A) Image Entertainment B) Eureka Entertainment C) Kino Video D) Photoplay Productions
A) Image Entertainment B) Kino Video C) Eureka Entertainment D) Photoplay Productions
A) 1993 B) 2002 C) 2011 D) 2015
A) Eureka Entertainment B) Photoplay Productions C) Image Entertainment D) Kino Video
A) The BFI B) Eureka Entertainment C) Image Entertainment D) Kino Video
A) Photoplay Productions B) Kino Video C) Eureka Entertainment D) Image Entertainment
A) Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994) B) Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974) C) Peter Bogdanovich's Nickelodeon (1976) D) Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000)
A) Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974) B) Peter Bogdanovich's Nickelodeon (1976) C) Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018) D) Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994)
A) Justin Simien's Dear White People (2014) B) Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994) C) Kevin Willmott's C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) D) Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000)
A) Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994) B) Kevin Willmott's C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) C) Dinesh D'Souza's Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party D) Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000)
A) Justin Simien's Dear White People (2014) B) Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018) C) Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994) D) Kevin Willmott's C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
A) Nate Parker B) Spike Lee C) Dinesh D'Souza D) Kevin Willmott
A) Bowling Green State University B) Stanford University C) University of California, Berkeley D) Harvard University |