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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. What world event caused the Japanese to censor domestic film, including Kurosawa's A German at Daruma Temple?
(a) The accession of Hirohito.
(b) The Maoist revolution.
(c) The Pacific War.
(d) The Depression.

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

3. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?
(a) He loudly protests that it is lousy.
(b) He becomes ill and walks out.
(c) He gives it a standing ovation.
(d) He weeps uncontrollably.

4. What did Akira decide to do regarding the two speeches he was given to read?
(a) He read the other speech.
(b) He improvised at the podium.
(c) He read the hated teacher's speech.
(d) He declined to read any speech.

5. In A Distant Village, what did Akira do when after he got drunk on sake?
(a) He passed out next to a water ox.
(b) He fell in a rice paddy.
(c) He kissed a strange woman.
(d) He vomited on his cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation was Togashi to Akira?

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

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

4. Why was young Akira sent to Toyokawa Village?

5. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?

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