Cinema MCQs
Cinema MCQs
Answer these 70 Cinema MCQs and see how sharp is your knowledge of Cinema.
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1: Henry moore's great series of reclining nudes is said to have been inspired by ____.
A. An African ancestral figure
B. A Chinese figure of Guanyin
C. A pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool
D. A medieval representation of Mary Magdalene
2: This clip from death to the tinman provides an example of a ___________ narrator.
A. Third-person
B. Omniscient
C. First-person
D. Second-person
3: The ________ is akin to a three-ring circus.
A. Thrust stage
B. Multifocus theatre
C. Amateur
D. Proscenium stage
4: The ________ is of special interest to experimental or avant-garde practitioners.
A. Created
B. Found
C. Space
D. All of the above
5: The central conflict and movement through a drama is referred to as the ________ of the play.
A. Exposition
B. Obstacle
C. Action
D. Climax
6: A ________ uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lesson.
A. Morality
B. Kathakai
C. Augusto Boal
D. Scenea
7: An editor's control of _____________ can determine the pace or rhythm of a movie.
A. Cutting
B. Editing
C. Montage
D. Dissolve
8: Alfred hitchcock?s movie __________, is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.
A. Rear Window
B. Quadruple
C. Leitmotifs
D. The Godfather
9: In a noncommercial theatre, the managing director is akin to the ________ in a commercial theatre.
A. Preview
B. Producer
C. Blocking
D. None of these
10: In one form or another, the ________ has been the most widely used of all the theatre spaces.
A. Proscenium
B. Arena stage
C. Proscenium stage
D. Thrust stage
11: Most broadway performance spaces were built with the ________ configuration.
A. Aeschylus
B. Aristophanes
C. Proscenium stage
D. Created or found stage
12: The development of _____ fostered the great period of scenery design.
A. The thrust stage.
B. The medieval platform stage.
C. Artificial lighting and flat.
D. None of these.
13: The lyrics for west side story were written by _______.
A. Jule Styne Stephen Sondheim
B. Arthur Laurents
C. Romeo & Juliet
D. Prologue & "The Rumble"
14: West side story contains _______.
A. Movie soundtracks can contain
B. During the last few years, moviegoers have
C. West Side Story
D. West Side Story contains
15: (chad deity) powerbomb and sleeper cell are examples of ____________.
A. Food.
B. A partner.
C. Fun.
D. Nothing
16: ________ wrote both the words and the music for sweeney todd.
A. Stephen Sondheim
B. Haydn and Mozart
C. George Gershwin
D. John Williams
17: The total world of a film's ____________ is called its ____________.
A. Story; diegesis
B. Real; nonprofessional; documentary
C. Nonprofessional; documentary
D. Real; nonprofessional
18: In chinese opera, makeup reveals ___,
A. Traits
B. A clinic
C. An exposition
D. A symposium
19: The works of ________ likely influenced shakespeare's hamlet.
A. Seneca
B. Environmental
C. Moliere
D. None of these
20: A ________ dramatizes a series of biblical events.
A. Morality play
B. .morality play
C. Mystery or cycle play
21: A ________ reinforces or runs parallel to the major plot in an episodic play.
A. Ritual
B. Harlequin
C. Subplot
D. None of these
22: André antoine is primarily known as a ______ director.
A. Symbolist.
B. Absurdist.
C. Naturalist and idealist.
D. Expressionist.
23: In ________, the language used in the play is prose.
A. Modern tragedy
B. Traditional tragedy
C. Melodrama
D. Pun
24: Implicit meaning is best defined as ________, while explicit meaning is best defined as ________.
A. A deep-level association, connection, or inference; meaning available on the surface of the movie
B. The narrative intent of the moment, scene, or sequence in the movie.
C. The personal motives governing the performer's investment in particular projects.
D. None of these
25: When framing a shot, cinematographers are limited by the aspect ratio, which is the ________.
A. Perceived depth of field of an image
B. Relationship between the focal length and the film gauge
C. Size of the projected image
D. Relationship of the frame’s width to its height
E. Ratio between the key light and fill light
26: Pageant wagons originated in the ______ period.
A. Shakespearean
B. Medieval
C. Comedias
D. Renaissance
27: In tragicomedy, the overview, or prevailing attitude, is a ________ of the serious and comic.
A. Analysis
B. Synthesis
C. Syndicate
D. Evaluation
28: ________ is a lighting technique often associated with horror and film noir.
A. Low-key
B. High-key
C. Three-point
D. Flat
E. Lighting ratio.
29: Most film sounds are constructed _____.
A. Sound crew
B. During postproduction
C. During sound design
D. While location scouting
30: Early screen-acting is characterized by _____________ gestures and ____________.
A. Exaggerated; mouthed words
B. Mouthed words ; subtle
C. Mouthed words; exaggerated
D. Subtle; mouthed words
31: One camera position and everything associated with it is called ________.
A. Take
B. Slate
C. Dolly
D. Setup
32: Miracle plays flourished until late in the _____ century.
A. 15th
B. 18th
C. 16th
D. 19th
33: Film noir has a distinct visual style that includes ____________, ___________, and ___________.
A. Narrative; experimental; documentary
B. Deep shadows; nighttime exterior scenes; elements composed diagonally in the frame
C. Exploring the American dream; an antihero; elements composed diagonally in the frame
D. None of the above
34: Form describes _____________, while content describes _____________.
A. The subject of a movie; the means of expression
B. The means by which the narrative is expressed; the subject of a movie
C. The overall effect of characters; the elements contained in the dialog
D. The elements contained in the staging; the overall effect of staging the means by which the narrative is expressed; the subject of a movie
35: Gangster films are characterized by _____________ and _____________.
A. Experimental; documentary
B. Hand-drawn; stop-motion
C. Exploring the American dream; an antihero
D. Deep shadows; nighttime exterior scenes
36: Many would describe bob fosses choreography as ____.
A. Energetic choreography
B. Hollywood
C. Washington, D.c.
D. New York
E. The State Department
37: German expressionist film reflected an atmosphere of _____ in postwar germany.
A. Cynicism
B. Alienation
C. Disillusionment
D. All of these
38: A term synonymous with the aesthetic approach to film history is the ________.
A. Artistic approach
B. Narrative approach
C. Masterpiece approach
D. Great director
E. Auteur approach
39: _______ organized the 1924 concert, "an experiment in modern music."
A. Duke Ellington
B. Paul Whiteman
C. Ira Gershwin
D. Irving Berlin
40: A musical created using existing pop songs is called a ______ musical.
A. Jukebox
B. Bob Fosse
C. Heaven
D. None of these
41: The mambo is a dance of ________ origin.
A. Cuba
B. Afro-cuban
C. Chorus
D. None of these
42: The group responsible for the sound in movies is called the _____.
A. Sound crew.
B. Dialogue
C. Sound designer.
D. Amplitude.
43: The popular fictional film character ___________, was entirely created using motion capture.
A. Gollum
B. Yoda
C. Darth Vadar
D. Frodo.
44: Musicals from the 1940s and 50s are called symphonic because they ___.
A. Aroused sympathy from the audiencewere made collaborativelycalled
B. The symphony orchestra
C. Film score
D. Nondiegetic music
E. New age music
45: The first popularly known blackface minstrel character was __________.
A. Porgy And Bess
B. Wah-no-tee
C. Al Jolson
D. Jim Crow
46: The musicals oklahoma and the king and i by rodgers and hammerstein are considered ______ musicals.
A. Bieu-tuong-daotaoladigi.
B. Conditional
C. Marni Nixon
D. Iowa
E. Rex Harrison
47: The first step in developing a service blueprint is ____________.
A. To reach a consensus on which activities are more important than others
B. To identify all the key activities involved in creating and delivering the service
C. To identify the links between a set of alternative service possibilities
D. To identify the key employees who will be enacting the service blueprint
E. To identify the key customers who will be participating in the service
48: The more ____ involved with delivering a service, the greater the degree of heterogeneity.
A. Mechanical efforts
B. Phone contact
C. Perishability
D. None of these
49: The first recorded example of impersonation as part of a ritual occurs in ____.
A. Cuba
B. Overlap
C. Rituals
D. None of these
50: A(n) _________________ is behavior expected of a status in relation to another social status.
A. Right
B. Role
C. Attribution
D. Obligation.
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