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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was the first movie that Uekusa and Akira wrote together?
(a) No Regret for Our Youth.
(b) One Wonderful Sunday,
(c) Sugata Sanshiro, Part II.
(d) Drunken Angel.

2. In what year did Kurosawa begin shooting Sugata Sanshiro?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1949.

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

4. What does Kurosawa blame for the failure of Scandal?
(a) His own lack of narrative clarity.
(b) A supporting character dominates the film.
(c) His plot was severely trancated in editing.
(d) Mifune Toshiro's overacting.

5. What emotion did Mifune Toshiro choose to present in his audition from Akira Kurosawa?
(a) Remorse.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Bemusement.
(d) Anger.

6. What terrifying job did Yamamoto Kajiro give Akira as chief assistant?
(a) Interfacing with the studio heads.
(b) Editing the film.
(c) Scheduling shoot dates.
(d) Delivering notes to the lead actors.

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

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

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

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

11. When does Kurosawa traditionally use the song The Cuckoo Waltz in his films?
(a) When a character is killed.
(b) When a character is elated.
(c) When a character is falling asleep.
(d) When a character is distraught.

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

13. At the end of Marriage, how did Akira decide to make more money?
(a) Write more screenplays.
(b) Take on a teaching job.
(c) Edit more films.
(d) Draw from his inheritance.

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

15. Which Japanese director is not mentioned in Good People?
(a) Fushimizu Shu.
(b) Naruse Mikio.
(c) Yasujiro Ozu.
(d) Takizawa Eisuke.

Short Answer Questions

1. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, how did the little girl respond to Akira's rescuing her?

2. In what time period does Rashomon take place?

3. What was the man who inspired a character in Scandal distraught over?

4. Who did Uekusa and Akira base the antagonist of The Drunken Angel on?

5. Why was PCL first established?

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