Question 1

In which of the following films did Chaplin appear as a hired killer?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Kid
B)  The Pilgrim
C)  Monsieur Verdoux
D)  The Gold Rush C

Question 2

Adoor Gopalakrishnan's authorized biography "A Life in Cinema" is written by

Accepted Answer

A)  M.F. Thomas
B)  Madhu Eravankara
C)  Gautaman Bhaskaran
D)  Derek Malcolm A

Question 3

Which of the following is a Buster Keaton movie?

Accepted Answer

A)  The General
B)  Long Pants
C)  Sons of Desert
D)  City Lights A

Question 4

"The Great Train Robbery" is made by……………………….

Accepted Answer

A)  Auguste Lumiere
B)  Thomas Alva Edison
C)  Edwin S. Porter
D)  Thomas Armat

Question 5

"Night and Fog", the classical documentary on the mass killings during the second world war was made by………………………..

Accepted Answer

A)  Roberto Fellini
B)  Dziga Vertov
C)  Roman Polanski
D)  Allain Resnais

Question 6

Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an …………………………film maker

Accepted Answer

A)  Iranian
B)  Iraqui
C)  Israeli
D)  Afghani

Question 7

Who among the following film makers created one of the world cinema's most comic characters, Mr. Hulot?

Accepted Answer

A)  Charles Chaplin
B)  Buster Keaton
C)  Robert Bresson
D)  Jacques Tati

Question 8

Bert Haanstra's classic documentary........................ documents Holland's struggle against the sea

Accepted Answer

A)  Delta Project
B)  Delta Finale
C)  Delta Phase I
D)  The Eastern Scheldt

Question 9

IFFK is held every year in ………………………..

Accepted Answer

A)  New Delhi
B)  Goa
C)  Thiruvananthapuram
D)  Mumbai

Question 10

Which of the following films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan won the British Film Institute Award?

Accepted Answer

A)  Swayamvaram
B)  Mukhamukham
C)  Elipathayam
D)  Anantharam

Question 11

…………………………….is a trial performance of talents to assess their ability to act.

Accepted Answer

A)  Screen test
B)  Screen interview
C)  Rehearsal
D)  Audition

Question 12

"Train Arriving the Platform" is one among the early actuality film shot by………………

Accepted Answer

A)  Edwin S. Porter
B)  Eadweard Muybridge
C)  Georges Milies
D)  Lumiere Brothers

Question 13

The first movie theatre was opened to the paying public on 28th December 1895 by Lumiere brothers in the basement room of the Grand Café in ……………………..

Accepted Answer

A)  London
B)  New York
C)  Munich
D)  Paris

Question 14

………………….was the first film maker who introduced parallel action editing (cross-cut) to heighten the anxiety of the audience.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cecil Hepworth
B)  D.W. Griffith
C)  Mack Sennette
D)  Stuart Blackton

Question 15

Which is the film production company launched jointly by Griffith, Chalpin, Mary Pickford and Doughlas Fairbanks?

Accepted Answer

A)  United Artist's Corporation
B)  Paramount
C)  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
D)  Rex Pictures

Question 16

The Blue Angel, a Marlene Dietrich film is directed by…………………..

Accepted Answer

A)  Josef von Sternberg
B)  Ernst Lubitsch
C)  Alfred Hitchcock
D)  John Ford

Question 17

The first event in his first film was a close-up of a razor slicing the human eye ball. Who is this Spanish surrealist film author?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ousmane Sembene
B)  Ingmar Bergman
C)  Luis Bunuel
D)  Tomas Gutierrez Alea

Exam 2: Film and Cinema: Part B