FILM 2700 TEST 2 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
1. After the Bolsheviks gained power in Russia in late 1917, their first move regarding
the Russian cinema was to:
A) Abolish foreign imports.
B) Create a new regulatory body to oversee the cinema.
C) Nationalize the film industry.
D) Subsidize the construction of permanent movie theaters. - B) Create a new
regulatory body to oversee the cinema.
4. With film stock extremely scarce in the Soviet Union during the War Communism
years, the students in Lev Kuleshov's workshop at the State Film School prepared for
future filmmaking efforts in each of the following ways, except:
A) Reediting old films.
B) Writing elaborately detailed continuity scripts.
C) Shooting and assembling footage in short editing experiments.
D) Putting on plays that were staged as much like films as possible. - B) Writing
elaborately detailed continuity scripts.
5. The "Kuleshov effect" is based on the use of editing to:
A) Lead the spectator to infer spatial or temporal continuity from the shots of separate
elements.
B) Create a new idea or argumentative position out of the juxtaposition of two
completely dissimilar shots.
C) Smooth over the potential rupture for the spectator caused by a shift in time or
location.
D) Replicate or suggest the mental activity of characters. - A) Lead the spectator to infer
spatial or temporal continuity from the shots of separate elements.
14. Which Soviet director and theorist admired the succinct storytelling of American
films and thought of Montage chiefly as techniques of editing for clarity and emotional
effects?
A) Lev Kuleshov
B) Alexander Dovzhenko
C) Sergei Eisenstein
D) Dziga V ertov - A) Lev Kuleshov
18. In the hands of Soviet Montage filmmakers, very rapid cutting within a film often:
A) Implies that human actions are socially determined.
B) Enhances the effect of explosive or violent action.
C) Conveys characters' subjective perceptions.
, D) Suggests the relentlessness of class struggle. - B) Enhances the effect of explosive
or violent action.
24. The February Revolution (of 1917) had relatively little effect on the Russian film
industry.
A) True
B) False - A) True
25. "Agit-vehicles" were films designed to ease the stars of pre-Revolution Russian
cinema into roles in films that championed Bolshevik principles.
A) True
B) False - B) False
27. After the Bolshevik Revolution, most Russian artists supported the new government.
A) True
B) False - A) True
28. Most non-Montage Soviet films of the silent period tended to be topical comedies or
conventional literary adaptations.
A) True
B) False - A) True
29. Because of the primacy of editing in the art of Soviet Montage cinema, Montage
directors paid little attention to the camera and rarely experimented with unconventional
framings and angles.
A) True
B) False - B) False
31. Warner Bros. initially considered converting to sound production as a way to:
A) Compensate for the lack of visual interest in its low-budget product.
B) Respond to audience demand for talking pictures.
C) Manufacture a pretense for terminating the contracts of high-priced foreign-born
actors.
D) Create a cost-cutting substitute for live entertainment on film programs. - D) Create a
cost-cutting substitute for live entertainment on film programs.
32. Don Juan, the feature on the program at the first public Vitaphone screening in
August 1926, had:
A) Live orchestral accompaniment but no recorded soundtrack.
B) Recorded music but no dialogue.
C) Recorded dialogue that was badly out of synchronization with the picture.
D) Four scenes in which the star sang and even spoke briefly. - B) Recorded music but
no dialogue.
33. Which studio, having lost out to Warner Bros. on signing big-name theatrical talent,
exploited sound technology via newsreels?
ANSWERS
1. After the Bolsheviks gained power in Russia in late 1917, their first move regarding
the Russian cinema was to:
A) Abolish foreign imports.
B) Create a new regulatory body to oversee the cinema.
C) Nationalize the film industry.
D) Subsidize the construction of permanent movie theaters. - B) Create a new
regulatory body to oversee the cinema.
4. With film stock extremely scarce in the Soviet Union during the War Communism
years, the students in Lev Kuleshov's workshop at the State Film School prepared for
future filmmaking efforts in each of the following ways, except:
A) Reediting old films.
B) Writing elaborately detailed continuity scripts.
C) Shooting and assembling footage in short editing experiments.
D) Putting on plays that were staged as much like films as possible. - B) Writing
elaborately detailed continuity scripts.
5. The "Kuleshov effect" is based on the use of editing to:
A) Lead the spectator to infer spatial or temporal continuity from the shots of separate
elements.
B) Create a new idea or argumentative position out of the juxtaposition of two
completely dissimilar shots.
C) Smooth over the potential rupture for the spectator caused by a shift in time or
location.
D) Replicate or suggest the mental activity of characters. - A) Lead the spectator to infer
spatial or temporal continuity from the shots of separate elements.
14. Which Soviet director and theorist admired the succinct storytelling of American
films and thought of Montage chiefly as techniques of editing for clarity and emotional
effects?
A) Lev Kuleshov
B) Alexander Dovzhenko
C) Sergei Eisenstein
D) Dziga V ertov - A) Lev Kuleshov
18. In the hands of Soviet Montage filmmakers, very rapid cutting within a film often:
A) Implies that human actions are socially determined.
B) Enhances the effect of explosive or violent action.
C) Conveys characters' subjective perceptions.
, D) Suggests the relentlessness of class struggle. - B) Enhances the effect of explosive
or violent action.
24. The February Revolution (of 1917) had relatively little effect on the Russian film
industry.
A) True
B) False - A) True
25. "Agit-vehicles" were films designed to ease the stars of pre-Revolution Russian
cinema into roles in films that championed Bolshevik principles.
A) True
B) False - B) False
27. After the Bolshevik Revolution, most Russian artists supported the new government.
A) True
B) False - A) True
28. Most non-Montage Soviet films of the silent period tended to be topical comedies or
conventional literary adaptations.
A) True
B) False - A) True
29. Because of the primacy of editing in the art of Soviet Montage cinema, Montage
directors paid little attention to the camera and rarely experimented with unconventional
framings and angles.
A) True
B) False - B) False
31. Warner Bros. initially considered converting to sound production as a way to:
A) Compensate for the lack of visual interest in its low-budget product.
B) Respond to audience demand for talking pictures.
C) Manufacture a pretense for terminating the contracts of high-priced foreign-born
actors.
D) Create a cost-cutting substitute for live entertainment on film programs. - D) Create a
cost-cutting substitute for live entertainment on film programs.
32. Don Juan, the feature on the program at the first public Vitaphone screening in
August 1926, had:
A) Live orchestral accompaniment but no recorded soundtrack.
B) Recorded music but no dialogue.
C) Recorded dialogue that was badly out of synchronization with the picture.
D) Four scenes in which the star sang and even spoke briefly. - B) Recorded music but
no dialogue.
33. Which studio, having lost out to Warner Bros. on signing big-name theatrical talent,
exploited sound technology via newsreels?
