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Quiz about Akira Kurosawas The Seven Samurai
Quiz about Akira Kurosawas The Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai' Quiz

A quiz humbly offered as an unworthy homage to one of the finest films ever made. A warning: If you have never seen this film it is highly improbable that you will do well on these questions, so run out to your library or vid store and get it now!

A multiple-choice quiz by Lofgeornost. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Lofgeornost
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
66,840
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
10 / 15
Plays
343
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 76 (9/15), Guest 38 (5/15), Guest 76 (0/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. What instruments do we hear during the film's opening theme? Hint


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Question 2 of 15
2. 'The Seven Samurai' is a story about three main groups: samurai, farmers, and bandits. Which group do we first see in the movie? Hint


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Question 3 of 15
3. Knowing the bandits will return to plunder their stock of rice, the farmers hold an anguished council meeting to decide what they should do. With the village seeming to favor passivity, which farmer desperately demands that they make bamboo spears and fight their persecutors? Hint


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Question 4 of 15
4. When some farmers complain that they have nothing but food to offer any prospective samurai, how does The Old Man reply? Hint


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Question 5 of 15
5. Three of the samurai are introduced in one scene where Kambei disguises himself and rescues a child being held hostage by a desperate thief. What is Kambei's disguise? Hint


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Question 6 of 15
6. Which character struts around carrying a giant-sized sword over his shoulder? Hint


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Question 7 of 15
7. What test does Kambei set up for a few prospective samurai? Hint


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Question 8 of 15
8. True or False. Kyuzo, the master swordsman, initially refuses to join Kambei's group of samurai.


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Question 9 of 15
9. Which samurai has been Kambei's right-hand man in past battles? Hint


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Question 10 of 15
10. Which actor portrayed Kikuchiyo?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 11 of 15
11. Heihachi is the first of the samurai to be killed. He is mortally wounded during which event? Hint


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Question 12 of 15
12. Which samurai falls in love?

Answer: (one word)

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Question 13 of 15
13. Of the four farmers who go to recruit samurai, which one dies during the penultimate battle? Hint


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Question 14 of 15
14. By the movie's end, four of the samurai have been killed by the same type of weapon. What is it? Hint


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Question 15 of 15
15. True of False. The three surviving samurai are Kambei, Kyuzo, and Kikuchiyo.



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What instruments do we hear during the film's opening theme?

Answer: drums

 The opening credits are accompanied by the steady beat of drums. It is the theme of the first characters we see: the bandits. Kurosawa makes effective use of musical themes representing various characters or groups in this film.
2. 'The Seven Samurai' is a story about three main groups: samurai, farmers, and bandits. Which group do we first see in the movie?

Answer: Bandits

 The film opens with the bandits storming through the countryside on their horses, seeking a new place to plunder. Not an easy cinematic feat for Kurosawa to pull off, since horses were difficult to come by in post-war Japan.
3. Knowing the bandits will return to plunder their stock of rice, the farmers hold an anguished council meeting to decide what they should do. With the village seeming to favor passivity, which farmer desperately demands that they make bamboo spears and fight their persecutors?

Answer: Rikichi

 It's a powerful scene when Rikichi breaks from the council circle and stands on his own. His defiance is justified by The Old Man's agreement that the farmers should fight back, with the aid of professionals.
4. When some farmers complain that they have nothing but food to offer any prospective samurai, how does The Old Man reply?

Answer: 'Find hungry samurai.'

 One of my favorite lines.
5. Three of the samurai are introduced in one scene where Kambei disguises himself and rescues a child being held hostage by a desperate thief. What is Kambei's disguise?

Answer: a monk

 The disguise involves having his head shaved, including the removal of his top-knot, a symbol of Kambei's samurai status. We instantly see that he is willing to make a sacrifice to save an innocent.
6. Which character struts around carrying a giant-sized sword over his shoulder?

Answer: Kikuchiyo

 Kikuchiyo, we later discover, is not of the samurai class; the non-samurai style blade is an immediate sign of this...inadeqaucy.
7. What test does Kambei set up for a few prospective samurai?

Answer: Katsushiro tries to ambush them

 Great scenes. The first samurai skillfully blocks the callow Katsushiro's attack and flings him across the room. Next, Gorobei senses the ambush, and smiles, saying "Please, sir. No jokes." Finally, a soused Kikuchiyo gets clocked in the cranium.
8. True or False. Kyuzo, the master swordsman, initially refuses to join Kambei's group of samurai.

Answer: True

He is a man concerned only with the perfection of his art, and turns down Kambei's offer. But even the greatest must eat.
9. Which samurai has been Kambei's right-hand man in past battles?

Answer: Shichiroji

 They communicate with the laconic ease of two battle-weary veterans. Together, against all odds, these two have managed to survive all their battles.
10. Which actor portrayed Kikuchiyo?

Answer: Toshiro Mifune

Toshiro Mifune appeared as leading man in many Kurosawa films, such as "High and Low," "Throne of Blood," and "Yojimbo." I first saw him as Toranaga in the mini-series "Shogun." Among all his work, his role in "Seven Samurai" is what made him a star, and it is my favorite of his performances.
11. Heihachi is the first of the samurai to be killed. He is mortally wounded during which event?

Answer: a raid on the bandits' hideaway

 Rikichi leads three of the samurai to the bandits' hideaway and they perform a swift and devastating raid. All goes well until Rikichi, seeing his kidnapped wife among the bandits' women, rushes toward the flame-engulfed hideaway. Heihachi goes after his comrade, only to be shot by a bandit.
12. Which samurai falls in love?

Answer: Katsushiro

Fearing that all the samurai will be more drawn to his daughter Shino than to battling bandits, Manzo forces her to cut off her lush hair and dress like a boy. Despite the attempt at disguise, it isn't long before young love blossoms amidst all the hillside flowers.
13. Of the four farmers who go to recruit samurai, which one dies during the penultimate battle?

Answer: Yohei

 As a result of Kikuchiyo's rash theft of a rifle, the bandits attack while the samurai and farmers are not expecting it. Yohei, leaderless while Kikuchiyo is absent from his post, gets speared in the back.
14. By the movie's end, four of the samurai have been killed by the same type of weapon. What is it?

Answer: rifle

 The samurai seem unbeatable when fighting with honorable edged weapons. It is the modern gunpowder weapon, and its flagrant use by the bandits, that spells the warriors' demise.
15. True of False. The three surviving samurai are Kambei, Kyuzo, and Kikuchiyo.

Answer: False

Kambei and Shichiroji, as they have always done, survive. The third is Katsushiro, the innocent youth who has now faced love and death, and finishes the final battle in a rage before finally crumbling to his knees in tearful agony.
Source: Author Lofgeornost

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