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

2. Why did Fushimizu Shu suddenly stop making movies?
(a) He was blacklisted as a Communist.
(b) He died.
(c) He was elected Mayor of his hometown.
(d) He renounced the art of cinema.

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

4. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, how did the little girl respond to Akira's rescuing her?
(a) She kills herself.
(b) She asks him to put her back.
(c) She barely acknowledges it.
(d) She cries and holds him.

5. What natural disaster nearly ends the shoot of The Stray Dog?
(a) Tsunami.
(b) Earthquake.
(c) Hurricane.
(d) Typhoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Kurosawa film is not discussed in SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

2. At the end of this section, what impelled Kurosawa to walk out on the studio?

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

4. What does Kurosawa blame for the failure of Sugata Sanshiro, Part II?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Akira's brother die?

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

3. How did Akira become disillusioned with the Proletariat Artists League?

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

5. What controversy does Kurosawa have filming a night scene in Sugata Sanshiro?

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

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

8. How did an army major and Akira Kurosawa come to an agreement regarding cutting a scene from one of his films?

9. Describe Kurosawa's relationship with Japanese censors.

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

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