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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 49 through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Akira Kurosawa compare the dead animal from his memory in Babyhood?
(a) Sushi.
(b) A plate of spaghetti.
(c) Steak.
(d) A pile of fancid rice.

2. Why did Akira choose to leave the Proletariat Artists League?
(a) It though he was a government agent.
(b) He did not agree with its politics.
(c) He was more talented than his colleagues.
(d) It didn't pay enough.

3. Which Kurosawa film is not discussed in SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
(a) One Wonderful Sunday.
(b) Ran.
(c) Drunken Angel.
(d) Sugata Sanshiro.

4. What changed for young Akira after the event of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) He always went to school with Uekusa.
(b) He never rode the train at rush hour.
(c) Nothing changed.
(d) He walked to school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What settled the debate regarding the cutting of the scene?

2. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?

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

4. What does Kurosawa admit he suffers from at the very end of SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

5. For what studio did Kurosawa make A Salmon's Old Stories?

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