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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. Why was Akira angered the first time he saw Rashomon on television?
(a) It was editted for time.
(b) Its widescreen was cut down.
(c) It was not as good as he remembered.
(d) His name was left off the credits.

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

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

4. Which individual's death does Kurosawa not describe in the book?
(a) His father.
(b) His older brother.
(c) His older sister.
(d) His mother.

5. What is the primary memory Kuosawa has of a Yamamoto Kajiro set?
(a) Fear of firing.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Serenity.
(d) Sleeplessness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjective did the censors use to describe their problems with Sugata Sanshiro?

3. For what studio did Kurosawa make A Salmon's Old Stories?

4. What is the subject of The Drunken Angel?

5. Why did Akira apply to PCL at 26?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kurosawa's relationship with Japanese censors.

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

3. How did Yanamoto help Akira grow as a director?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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