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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. Where did Kurosawa choose to shoot the fight scene from Sugata Sanshiro?
(a) On the roof of his house.
(b) On a soundstage.
(c) In a thick forested area.
(d) On a mountain.

2. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?
(a) They both took kendo lessons.
(b) They were both form Tekeni Prefecture.
(c) They both loved film.
(d) They both cried all the time.

3. What ridiculous order did Kurosawa give his platoon as leader?
(a) He marches them into a wall.
(b) He orders them to go to sleep.
(c) He orders them to take off their clothes.
(d) He directs them to to fire in the air.

4. On what public conveyance was young Akira during the events of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) A tram.
(b) A streetcar.
(c) A rickshaw.
(d) A train.

5. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?
(a) A dying sled dog.
(b) An Egyptian slave girl.
(c) An old man's suicide.
(d) A paralyzed infant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Akira Kurosawa humiliated in his early memory about his nurse?

2. Which famed director observed the filming of The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail while the US was occupying Japan?

3. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?

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

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

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