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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who joined Kurosawa in forming Film Art Association?
(a) Mikio.
(b) Yanamoto.
(c) Ozu.
(d) Shu.

2. What was Fushimizu Shu's film specialty?
(a) Family dramas.
(b) Horror films.
(c) Musicals.
(d) Romances.

3. What is the primary memory Kuosawa has of a Yamamoto Kajiro set?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Fear of firing.
(d) Sleeplessness.

4. In Rashomon, Kurosawa wants to recapture the excitement he once felt from what?
(a) Silent films.
(b) Hearing master storytellers.
(c) Kendo.
(d) Painting.

5. In An Alleyway in the Floating World, what bothered Akira about his brother's tenement?
(a) It is barely ventilated.
(b) It is in a Korean area of town,
(c) It is incredibly overpriced.
(d) It is riddled with crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Japanese director is not mentioned in Good People?

2. Which is not an additional job that assistant directors had on set with Yamamoto Kajiro?

3. What was the American censor response to No Regrets for Our Youth?

4. What adjective did the censors use to describe their problems with Sugata Sanshiro?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mifune Toshiro and Kurosawa begin work together?

2. What was the talent like at the PCL?

3. Who were Akira's major influences in becoming the man he became?

4. What character flaw does Akira Kurosawa admit to at the end of Something Like an Autobiography?

5. How did Rashomon catapult Kurosawa to a new level of international recognition?

6. What was Kurosawa trying to evoke, visually, with Rashomon?

7. Describe the incident with the censor and the gate?

8. How did Akira accept japan's defeat in the war?

9. What demands did Kurosawa make of his actresses in The Most Beautiful?

10. How did Kurosawa's father's death affect his use of music in films?

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