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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. Why does Akira Kurosawa think his brother killed himself?
(a) He was about to lose his job.
(b) His screenplay had been rejected.
(c) He was dying of cancer.
(d) He lost the girl he wanted to marry him.

2. How does Mr. Iwamatsu respond to students who are struggling with exams?
(a) He helps them through problems.
(b) He mocks them mercilessly.
(c) He shrugs.
(d) He tells them the answers.

3. What does Kurosawa admit he suffers from at the very end of SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
(a) Auteurism.
(b) Dyslexia.
(c) Chronic laziness.
(d) Egotism.

4. Who did Uekusa and Akira base the antagonist of The Drunken Angel on?
(a) An unlicensed doctor they knew.
(b) A bully who once attacked Uekusa.
(c) The teacher they both hated.
(d) A Japanese war criminal.

5. What new aspect of the curriculum was added to Akira's life in fifth grade?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Culinary arts.
(c) Military training.
(d) Foreign landguages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ridiculous order did Kurosawa give his platoon as leader?

2. What two virtues did Kurosawa's father attribute to movies in Babyhood?

3. Where did young Akira's father like to take his son addition to the cinema?

4. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?

5. Which of the following was not a demand Kurosawa made of his actresses in The Most Beautiful?

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