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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. After the war, what did Akira make a conscious effort to learn about?
(a) Confucian philosophy.
(b) Japanese art.
(c) American democracy.
(d) European drama.

2. What was the man who inspired a character in Scandal distraught over?
(a) His own sense of mortality.
(b) His wife's affair.
(c) His dying daughter.
(d) His lost job.

3. Which of the following was the first movie that Uekusa and Akira wrote together?
(a) One Wonderful Sunday,
(b) No Regret for Our Youth.
(c) Sugata Sanshiro, Part II.
(d) Drunken Angel.

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

5. Where was Akira directing when Yamamoto Kajiro took ill and died?
(a) The United States.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) China.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Negative and Positive, what did an actor tell Akira his first day as an assistant director?

2. Akira Kurosawa cannot recall the name of which of these influential people?

3. Which individual's death does Kurosawa not describe in the book?

4. Which on-set worker was moved to tears while filming the final scene of The Quiet Duel?

5. In what year did Kurosawa begin shooting Sugata Sanshiro?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Akira's brother die?

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

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

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

8. What was the talent like at the PCL?

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

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

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