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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41 through 48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of this section, what impelled Kurosawa to walk out on the studio?
(a) His lack of artistic autonomy.
(b) A bout of heavy drinking.
(c) The horribly handled strike.
(d) His family death.

2. What enemy of Kurosawa's disappeared with the end of World War II?
(a) The censor board.
(b) The military tribunal.
(c) An unscrupulous producer.
(d) A rival director.

3. What catastrophic event happened on September 1, 1923?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A firebombing.
(d) A typhoon.

4. What emotion did Mifune Toshiro choose to present in his audition from Akira Kurosawa?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Bemusement.
(d) Anger.

5. Who ordered Kurosawa to cut a scene from a movie, which he refused?
(a) Mifune Toshiro.
(b) The army.
(c) His producers.
(d) The governor of his Prefecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film One Wonderful Sunday reconnected Akira with whom?

2. In A Coward and A Weakling, why was Akira arrest?

3. How did Akira do as a military student?

4. What did young Akira do in Toyokawa Village to impress his fellow young people?

5. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, what bothered Akira about his brother's tenement?

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