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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 49 through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why dis Kurosawa get selected for a renowned Kendo School?
(a) His arms were determined to be of the right length.
(b) He was chosen at random.
(c) He wrote an impassioned letter to the instructor.
(d) He impressed the instructor at a demonstration.

2. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?
(a) He painted a portrait of her.
(b) He opened every door for her one day.
(c) He sent her an orchid every day for a year.
(d) He waited for her all night with a love letter.

3. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?
(a) His mother.
(b) His kendo teacher.
(c) His older brother.
(d) Mr. Tachikawa.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of The Drunken Angel?

2. At the end of this section, what impelled Kurosawa to walk out on the studio?

3. At what film festival was Rashomon hailed to the international Press?

4. After working on Horses, what does Kurosawa spend his life doing besides writing?

5. What did Akira primarily worry about concerning being a part of the Proletariat Artists League?

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