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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. How many years did it take Akira Kurosawa to rise to chief assistant under Yamamoto Kajiro?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 12.

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

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

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

5. 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) 5 years.
(d) 1 week.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of A Bitter War, who did Kurosawa run into from his past?

2. How did young Akira look different than his brother?

3. Why was PCL first established?

4. What enemy of Kurosawa's disappeared with the end of World War II?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the incident with the censor and the gate?

3. How is Akira Kurosawa angered by the state of Japan's film industry?

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

5. What terrible experience does Kurosawa relate at the end of An Alleyway in the Floating World?

6. How did Kurosawa end up directing Sugata Sanshiro?

7. How did Akira discover the similarity he had to his brother?

8. Why was the final fight of Sugata Sanshiro a challenge for Kurosawa?

9. What was Kurosawa trying to evoke, visually, with Rashomon?

10. How did Kurosawa's father's death affect his use of music in films?

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