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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. Why was PCL first established?
(a) To research for sound films.
(b) To stock chain stores with simple film.
(c) To provide film for spy planes.
(d) To develop military technology.
2. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?
(a) A paralyzed infant.
(b) An old man's suicide.
(c) An Egyptian slave girl.
(d) A dying sled dog.
3. How does Akira characterize the songs of the Taisho age in Japan?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Cacophonous.
(c) Erotic.
(d) Lugubrious.
4. What did young Akira do in Toyokawa Village to impress his fellow young people?
(a) Tell them about Tokyo.
(b) Draw them pictures.
(c) Jump off waterfalls.
(d) Steal booze.
5. In The Gleam of Fireflies, who wrote a new speech to replace the one young Akira was given?
(a) Akira.
(b) Akira's older brother.
(c) Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) Uekusa.
Short Answer Questions
1. What job in the movies did Kurosawa's brother take in the 1930's?
2. What was different about The Most Beautiful's shooting concept?
3. What world event caused the Japanese to censor domestic film, including Kurosawa's A German at Daruma Temple?
4. What assertion does Kurosawa refute at the beginning of Keika Middle School?
5. Where is young Akira in his earliest memory?
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