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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 My Rebellious Phase, what dangerous material did Akira use on some of his pranks?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Raw sodium.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Gasoline.

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

3. In A Story I Don't Want to Tell, who had a premonition that Akira's brother might kill himself?
(a) Akira.
(b) His mother.
(c) His younger sister.
(d) His grandfather.

4. Which Japanese director is not mentioned in Good People?
(a) Naruse Mikio.
(b) Fushimizu Shu.
(c) Yasujiro Ozu.
(d) Takizawa Eisuke.

5. Why was PCL first established?
(a) To research for sound films.
(b) To stock chain stores with simple film.
(c) To develop military technology.
(d) To provide film for spy planes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Gleam of Fireflies, what grade was young Akira graduating from?

2. What colored animal did Akira Kurosawa think his family should have gotten when he was young?

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

4. Which of the following is not a physical reaction that Kurosawa had to being challenged in primary school?

5. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he considers himself what?

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