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

2. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He had to take a longer rout to his lessons.
(b) He became more dedicated to his Kendo lessons.
(c) No one every tried to fight him again.
(d) He had to fight the kids every time he walked to his lessons.

3. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?
(a) An old man's suicide.
(b) A paralyzed infant.
(c) A dying sled dog.
(d) An Egyptian slave girl.

4. What colored animal did Akira Kurosawa think his family should have gotten when he was young?
(a) A goldfish.
(b) A yellow canary.
(c) A gray cat.
(d) A black dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first position Akira took under Yamamoto Kajiro?

2. In what two subjects did young Akira fail his exams in this section?

3. In Kendo, how does Akira Kurosawa characterize his mother in comparison to his father?

4. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he considers himself what?

5. With what evocative metaphor does Kurosawa describe his smugness in the second chapter of this section?

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