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

2. What is the name of the leftist group that Kurosawa joined in the 1930's?
(a) United Writers Front.
(b) Artists Against Subjugation.
(c) Proletariat Artist League.
(d) Workers Creative Alliance.

3. In Negative and Positive, what did an actor tell Akira his first day as an assistant director?
(a) He should write for the movies.
(b) He looks like his brother.
(c) He'll never make it in the industry.
(d) He is smarter than the director.

4. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he never felt like what?
(a) A lover of life.
(b) A particularly good artist.
(c) A native of a particular region.
(d) A citizen of the World.

5. How did young Akira avoid falling to his death in the events of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) Another rider held onto him.
(b) He tucked and rolled.
(c) The vehicle stopped in time.
(d) He grabbed a railing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?

2. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?

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

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

5. At the end of this section, what impelled Kurosawa to walk out on the studio?

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