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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. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?
(a) He taught the children art history.
(b) He let children decide when they were done with a picture.
(c) He never hung up art work.
(d) He encuraged personal creativity.

2. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?
(a) A pony.
(b) A possum.
(c) A cow.
(d) A dog.

3. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) His bento box.
(b) His kendo outift.
(c) His school books.
(d) His bamboo rod.

4. At the end of Marriage, how did Akira decide to make more money?
(a) Write more screenplays.
(b) Take on a teaching job.
(c) Draw from his inheritance.
(d) Edit more films.

5. What was Yaguchi Yoko's job on The Most Beautiful?
(a) Assistant director.
(b) Actress.
(c) Head of makeup.
(d) Art director.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail based on?

2. What terrifying job did Yamamoto Kajiro give Akira as chief assistant?

3. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?

4. What settled the debate regarding the cutting of the scene?

5. Why was the shooting of the final fight in Sugata Sanshiro held up for two days?

(see the answer key)

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