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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 was Fushimizu Shu's film specialty?
(a) Horror films.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Family dramas.
(d) Romances.

2. What was Yaguchi Yoko's job on The Most Beautiful?
(a) Head of makeup.
(b) Assistant director.
(c) Art director.
(d) Actress.

3. In A Coward and A Weakling, what position was Akira given at the League newspaper?
(a) Assistant editor.
(b) Film reviewer.
(c) Beat reporter.
(d) Op-ed columnist.

4. What innovation made One Wonderful Sunday a sensation in Paris?
(a) Use of multiple languages.
(b) Surreal dream sequences.
(c) Audience interaction.
(d) Disjointed chronology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Akira angered the first time he saw Rashomon on television?

2. What emotion did Mifune Toshiro choose to present in his audition from Akira Kurosawa?

3. Why was PCL first established?

4. What was different about The Most Beautiful's shooting concept?

5. What types of laws was Kurosawa critiquing with his film Scandal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What character flaw does Akira Kurosawa admit to at the end of Something Like an Autobiography?

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

3. How did Rashomon catapult Kurosawa to a new level of international recognition?

4. How did Mifune Toshiro and Kurosawa begin work together?

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

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

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

8. Why does Kurosawa think his writing process was flawed in Scandal?

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

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

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