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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail based on?
(a) A Shakespearean play.
(b) A kabuki place.
(c) A Chinese novel.
(d) An American movie.

2. What adjective did the censors use to describe their problems with Sugata Sanshiro?
(a) Decadent.
(b) Subversive.
(c) Insinuating.
(d) American.

3. Who joined Kurosawa in forming Film Art Association?
(a) Ozu.
(b) Yanamoto.
(c) Mikio.
(d) Shu.

4. Which of Akira's family members died during the filming of The Drunken Angel?
(a) His mother.
(b) His Aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His older sister.

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

6. What did Akira's brother do three days before killing himself?
(a) Married his girlfriend.
(b) Sold his projector.
(c) Treated Akira to dinner.
(d) Bought a cat.

7. What was the American censor response to No Regrets for Our Youth?
(a) They approved it.
(b) They refused to approve it.
(c) They trimmed it significantly before approving it.
(d) They didn't even watch it.

8. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, what bothered Akira about his brother's tenement?
(a) It is riddled with crime.
(b) It is incredibly overpriced.
(c) It is in a Korean area of town,
(d) It is barely ventilated.

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

10. What enemy of Kurosawa's disappeared with the end of World War II?
(a) The censor board.
(b) A rival director.
(c) The military tribunal.
(d) An unscrupulous producer.

11. Which famed director observed the filming of The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail while the US was occupying Japan?
(a) John Ford.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) Frank Capra.
(d) Howard Hawks.

12. How did Kurosawa learn of Japan's defeat in the war?
(a) By a newsreel.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) The studio head announces it.
(d) Via radio.

13. What does Kurosawa blame for the failure of Sugata Sanshiro, Part II?
(a) Failure to secure the same actors.
(b) Lack of funding.
(c) His lack of interest.
(d) Excessive censorship.

14. What happened to Akira and his wife's first house?
(a) It burned in a brush fire.
(b) It collapsed in an earthquake.
(c) It was bombed.
(d) It was condemned by the state.

15. Which of the following was not a demand Kurosawa made of his actresses in The Most Beautiful?
(a) He made them run laps.
(b) he would not let them use makeup.
(c) He makes them take jobs in a factory.
(d) He made them cut off their hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which on-set worker was moved to tears while filming the final scene of The Quiet Duel?

2. What was Fushimizu Shu's film specialty?

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

4. Which of the following was the first movie that Uekusa and Akira wrote together?

5. What terrifying job did Yamamoto Kajiro give Akira as chief assistant?

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