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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Akira primarily worry about concerning being a part of the Proletariat Artists League?
(a) Missing his appointments with Mr. Tachikawa.
(b) Looking like a weakling.
(c) Sounding foolish in from of the other members.
(d) Disgracing his family.

2. What does Kurosawa admit he suffers from at the very end of SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
(a) Dyslexia.
(b) Auteurism.
(c) Chronic laziness.
(d) Egotism.

3. What is the PCL?
(a) A film school.
(b) A sales firm.
(c) A massage parlor.
(d) A photo lab.

4. Which Kurosawa film is not discussed in SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
(a) Drunken Angel.
(b) Ran.
(c) One Wonderful Sunday.
(d) Sugata Sanshiro.

5. What was the first position Akira took under Yamamoto Kajiro?
(a) Assistant director.
(b) Makeup assistant.
(c) Stand in.
(d) Set dresser.

6. In A Story I Don't Want to Tell, who had a premonition that Akira's brother might kill himself?
(a) His mother.
(b) His younger sister.
(c) Akira.
(d) His grandfather.

7. What types of laws was Kurosawa critiquing with his film Scandal?
(a) Sex trafficking laws.
(b) Political funding laws.
(c) Source disclosure laws.
(d) Freedom of speech laws.

8. What did Naruse Mikio use to build a scene?
(a) A single, extended shot.
(b) Voiceover.
(c) Many short shots.
(d) One establishing shot, and some closeups.

9. How old was Kurosawa when he got married?
(a) 40.
(b) 23.
(c) 29.
(d) 35.

10. What separated Akira from his contemporaries on set with Yamamoto Kajiro?
(a) He had never seen Yamamoto Kajiro's films.
(b) He had no degree.
(c) He was the only Japan native.
(d) He was significantly younger.

11. What happened to Akira and his wife's first house?
(a) It was condemned by the state.
(b) It was bombed.
(c) It collapsed in an earthquake.
(d) It burned in a brush fire.

12. The film One Wonderful Sunday reconnected Akira with whom?
(a) Yamamoto Kajiro.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa.
(c) Mr. Iwamatsu.
(d) His father.

13. Who became terrified when they happened upon the shoot of Sugata Sanshiro, Part II?
(a) A group of campers.
(b) A group of skiers.
(c) A group of elders.
(d) A women's society.

14. At the end of A Bitter War, who did Kurosawa run into from his past?
(a) The teacher he hated.
(b) His younger sister.
(c) Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) Uekusa.

15. At the end of A Salmon's Old Stories, what does Kurosawa accuse Japanese directors of emulating?
(a) His work.
(b) The theatre.
(c) Television.
(d) American films.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the primary memory Kuosawa has of a Yamamoto Kajiro set?

2. Which individual's death does Kurosawa not describe in the book?

3. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, how did the little girl respond to Akira's rescuing her?

4. What innovation in movies arrived in the chapter An Alleyway in the Floating World?

5. In Rashomon, Kurosawa wants to recapture the excitement he once felt from what?

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