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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 33 through 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the leftist group that Kurosawa joined in the 1930's?
(a) Proletariat Artist League.
(b) United Writers Front.
(c) Workers Creative Alliance.
(d) Artists Against Subjugation.

2. Why did Akira Kurosawa try to work as fast as possible to finish his calligraphy lessons?
(a) To become a more efficient calligrapher.
(b) To get home and take a nap.
(c) To visit Mr. Tachikawa sooner.
(d) To get away from his instructor as quickly as possible.

3. What does Kurosawa say was Takizawa's great talent in Good People?
(a) Staying under budget.
(b) Setting atmosphere.
(c) Directing actors.
(d) Using silence.

4. How does Akira characterize the songs of the Taisho age in Japan?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Cacophonous.
(c) Lugubrious.
(d) Erotic.

5. What act by Uekusa in Murasaki and Shonagon surprised and infuriated Kurosawa at the time?
(a) He charged a gang of bullies.
(b) He lost Kurosawa's favorite robe.
(c) He made a picture that Tachikawa liked.
(d) He asked out a girl Kurosawa liked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?

2. Which Japanese director is not mentioned in Good People?

3. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?

4. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?

5. Which of the following is not a daily appointment Kurosawa had to keep in childhood?

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