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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 25 through 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the subject of Inagaki Hiroshi's movie Forgotten Children?
(a) Paralyzed children.
(b) Retarded children.
(c) Child soldiers.
(d) Child prostitutes.

3. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, how did the little girl respond to Akira's rescuing her?
(a) She asks him to put her back.
(b) She barely acknowledges it.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She cries and holds him.

4. Which ethnic group was hunted and killed in the darkness following September 1, 1923?
(a) Taiwanese.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Koreans.
(d) Russians.

5. What was the first position Akira took under Yamamoto Kajiro?
(a) Makeup assistant.
(b) Stand in.
(c) Assistant director.
(d) Set dresser.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what evocative metaphor does Kurosawa describe his smugness in the second chapter of this section?

2. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he never felt like what?

3. Who is the sapling of the chapter title in this section?

4. What ridiculous order did Kurosawa give his platoon as leader?

5. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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