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

2. Where did young Akira's father like to take his son addition to the cinema?
(a) To master storytellers.
(b) To cricket matches.
(c) To picnics in the park.
(d) To the local shrines.

3. Why did the censors remove a gate from a Kurosawa film?
(a) The gate had an imperial symbol on it.
(b) They thought it was a vaginal metaphor.
(c) It was shot on a state holiday.
(d) They did not want any films over 90 minutes.

4. What did Kurosawa's teachers at Morimura Gakuen mistakenly believe about him?
(a) He was American.
(b) He was mentally challenged.
(c) He was two years older than he was.
(d) He was a musical prodigy.

5. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?
(a) He barely noticed it.
(b) He praised it intemperately.
(c) He criticized it harshly.
(d) He submitted it to agovernmental review.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Uekusa and Akira base the antagonist of The Drunken Angel on?

2. What was the source of explosions that intermittently went off in the wake of September 1, 1923's catastrophe?

3. What is the primary memory Kuosawa has of a Yamamoto Kajiro set?

4. How did young Akira look different than his brother?

5. What enemy of Kurosawa's disappeared with the end of World War II?

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