What kind of deal paid stars and directors to develop "vanity projects" for studios?

Prefiguration can be described as which of the following? Choose the best answer.

a. a common convention used to describe what is happening in a scene b. a visual way to describe what happened in history in the past c. a convention that used multiple colors as it appealed to worshipping Christians d. visual clue that lets the viewer know what is to come in the future

What meaning did Beethoven supposedly provide for Symphony no. 5's opening idea?

a. birds singing in the morning b. fate knocking on the door c. the footsteps of revolutionaries d. the fall of the guillotine