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

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

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

4. When the Depression hits Japan, what did Akira felt bad about his parents paying for what?
(a) His kendo lessons.
(b) His food.
(c) His clothing.
(d) His education.

5. In Crybaby, what was the subject of Kurosawa's artwork that Tachikawa praised?
(a) Smeared colors.
(b) A snake.
(c) Geometric shapes.
(d) A self-portrait.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?

2. What is the subject of The Drunken Angel?

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

4. Which star's westerns does Kurosawa particularly recall enjoying in Storytellers?

5. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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