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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. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?
(a) Weeping bitterly in his bedroom.
(b) Watching the children walk to school.
(c) Meditating behind the house.
(d) Cooking breakfast for the family.

2. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he considers himself what?
(a) A lifelong student.
(b) A closet westerner.
(c) A child of the planet earth.
(d) A perpetual actor.

3. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?
(a) He expected too little of his pupils.
(b) He was the smartest man he ever met.
(c) His knowledge was inferior.
(d) He was too remote an individual.

4. In A Distant Village, what did Akira do when after he got drunk on sake?
(a) He fell in a rice paddy.
(b) He passed out next to a water ox.
(c) He kissed a strange woman.
(d) He vomited on his cousin.

5. Why did Fushimizu Shu suddenly stop making movies?
(a) He was blacklisted as a Communist.
(b) He died.
(c) He was elected Mayor of his hometown.
(d) He renounced the art of cinema.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation was Togashi to Akira?

2. At the beginning of this section, what does Kurosawa has been a struggle for him?

3. How did film-goers know that a particular night shot in Sugata Sanshiro was shot during the day?

4. How does Mr. Iwamatsu respond to students who are struggling with exams?

5. Who ordered Kurosawa to cut a scene from a movie, which he refused?

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