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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, how long did Akira's brother let him stay in his tenement room?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 5 years.

2. In Negative and Positive, what did an actor tell Akira his first day as an assistant director?
(a) He looks like his brother.
(b) He'll never make it in the industry.
(c) He should write for the movies.
(d) He is smarter than the director.

3. What types of laws was Kurosawa critiquing with his film Scandal?
(a) Source disclosure laws.
(b) Political funding laws.
(c) Sex trafficking laws.
(d) Freedom of speech laws.

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

5. What innovation in movies arrived in the chapter An Alleyway in the Floating World?
(a) Color photography.
(b) Talkies.
(c) 3-D.
(d) Panorama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What innovation made One Wonderful Sunday a sensation in Paris?

2. What is the subject of The Drunken Angel?

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

4. What was the first position Akira took under Yamamoto Kajiro?

5. Why was PCL first established?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Akira accept japan's defeat in the war?

2. Describe Kurosawa's relationship with Japanese censors.

3. How did Akira's brother die?

4. What demands did Kurosawa make of his actresses in The Most Beautiful?

5. How did Akira find his brother in An Alleyway in the Floating World?

6. How did Kurosawa meet a famous American director without knowing it?

7. Why does Kurosawa think Sugata Sanshiro, Part II, was a failure?

8. Who were Akira's major influences in becoming the man he became?

9. What was Akira's editing experience under Yanamoto?

10. How did Kurosawa end up directing Sugata Sanshiro?

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