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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 33 through 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?
(a) Watching the children walk to school.
(b) Cooking breakfast for the family.
(c) Weeping bitterly in his bedroom.
(d) Meditating behind the house.

2. What adjective did the censors use to describe their problems with Sugata Sanshiro?
(a) Decadent.
(b) Insinuating.
(c) American.
(d) Subversive.

3. What happened to most of the actresses in The Most Beautiful after the shoot?
(a) They went on to have stellar careers.
(b) They remained in his company.
(c) They retired.
(d) They joined the war effort until the armistice.

4. Who sent Akira to Toyokawa Village for the summer after his fifth grade year?
(a) Mr. Tachikawa.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His military teacher,

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did film-goers know that a particular night shot in Sugata Sanshiro was shot during the day?

2. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?

3. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?

4. How does Akira characterize the songs of the Taisho age in Japan?

5. What did young Akira do in Toyokawa Village to impress his fellow young people?

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