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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. In Murasaki and Shonagon, how does Kurosawa assume he knew about the literary soldiers he referenced as a child?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father.
(c) His calligraphy teacher.
(d) Mr. Tachikawa.

2. What is the PCL?
(a) A film school.
(b) A massage parlor.
(c) A sales firm.
(d) A photo lab.

3. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, how did the little girl respond to Akira's rescuing her?
(a) She kills herself.
(b) She cries and holds him.
(c) She asks him to put her back.
(d) She barely acknowledges it.

4. Who ordered Kurosawa to cut a scene from a movie, which he refused?
(a) Mifune Toshiro.
(b) The army.
(c) His producers.
(d) The governor of his Prefecture.

5. At the end of A Bitter War, who did Kurosawa run into from his past?
(a) The teacher he hated.
(b) Uekusa.
(c) Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) His younger sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Akira Kurosawa initially rejected for military service?

2. From what book are the two soldiers that Kurosawa used to describe himself and Uekusa as children?

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

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

5. With what evocative metaphor does Kurosawa describe his smugness in the second chapter of this section?

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