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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 what year did Kurosawa begin shooting Sugata Sanshiro?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1954.

2. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1899.

3. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?
(a) He is always fighting the other children.
(b) He is Chinese.
(c) He is twice as tall as the other children.
(d) He isolates himself from the other children.

4. Why did Fushimizu Shu suddenly stop making movies?
(a) He died.
(b) He was blacklisted as a Communist.
(c) He renounced the art of cinema.
(d) He was elected Mayor of his hometown.

5. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?
(a) Weeping bitterly in his bedroom.
(b) Cooking breakfast for the family.
(c) Meditating behind the house.
(d) Watching the children walk to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?

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

3. Which is not an additional job that assistant directors had on set with Yamamoto Kajiro?

4. How does Kurosawa describe the style of institution that Kuroda Primary School is?

5. What subject was Kurosawa's older brother in love with when he failed his final exam?

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