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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 did Naruse Mikio use to build a scene?
(a) One establishing shot, and some closeups.
(b) Voiceover.
(c) Many short shots.
(d) A single, extended shot.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Akira's family members died during the filming of The Drunken Angel?

2. What terrifying job did Yamamoto Kajiro give Akira as chief assistant?

3. What term does Kurosawa use to describe the Japanese censors in A Bitter War?

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

5. How many years did it take Akira Kurosawa to rise to chief assistant under Yamamoto Kajiro?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did One Wonderful Sunday reunite Akira and Mr. Tachikawa?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Kurosawa's relationship with Japanese censors.

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

9. How did Kurosawa end up directing Sugata Sanshiro?

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

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