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

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

3. The mean nickname the children gave Kurosawa at Morimura Gakuen implied that he had tears large as what?
(a) Baseballs.
(b) Rice balls.
(c) Gum drops.
(d) Icicles.

4. Why was the shooting of the final fight in Sugata Sanshiro held up for two days?
(a) An actor though it was unsafe.
(b) It was not written yet.
(c) There was no wind.
(d) Kurosawa could not finish his shot list.

5. What happened to most of the actresses in The Most Beautiful after the shoot?
(a) They joined the war effort until the armistice.
(b) They remained in his company.
(c) They went on to have stellar careers.
(d) They retired.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of The Drunken Angel?

2. Which individual's death does Kurosawa not describe in the book?

3. Akira Kurosawa cannot recall the name of which of these influential people?

4. In what type of structure did the old man mentioned at the end of A Distant Village live?

5. What job in the movies did Kurosawa's brother take in the 1930's?

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