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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 separated Akira from his contemporaries on set with Yamamoto Kajiro?
(a) He was the only Japan native.
(b) He had never seen Yamamoto Kajiro's films.
(c) He was significantly younger.
(d) He had no degree.

2. What love besides movies did Akira's father pass down to him?
(a) Love of reading.
(b) Love of fine food.
(c) Love of beautiful woman.
(d) Love of sports.

3. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) No one every tried to fight him again.
(b) He had to take a longer rout to his lessons.
(c) He became more dedicated to his Kendo lessons.
(d) He had to fight the kids every time he walked to his lessons.

4. What is The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail based on?
(a) A Chinese novel.
(b) A kabuki place.
(c) A Shakespearean play.
(d) An American movie.

5. What innovation in movies arrived in the chapter An Alleyway in the Floating World?
(a) Talkies.
(b) Panorama.
(c) 3-D.
(d) Color photography.

Short Answer Questions

1. In A Coward and A Weakling, what position was Akira given at the League newspaper?

2. In The Gleam of Fireflies, why was Kurosawa uncomfortable with the speech given him?

3. After working on Horses, what does Kurosawa spend his life doing besides writing?

4. In A Distant Village, what did Akira do when after he got drunk on sake?

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

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