Rashomon (Film) Quizzes

Rashomon (Film) Quiz 1

1 Rashomon is based on two short stories by which Japanese author?
Kenzaburo Oe

Yukio Mishima

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Natsume Soseki
2 Which character does not provide testimony in court?
The priest

The commoner

The woodcutter

The policeman
3 Whose court testimony has no witnesses?
The commoner's

The woodcutter's

The priest's

The wife's
4 The director of the film is
Ryunosuke Kurosawa

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Akutagawa
5 The policeman captures a bandit named
Ryu

Toshiro

Tajomaru

Akira
6 In Tajomaru's tale...
Tajomaru kills the samurai and rapes the wife

Tajomaru kills the samurai and the wife escapes

Both the samurai and the wife escape

Tajomaru rapes the wife and runs away
7 Who was not present at the events surrounding the samurai's death?
The samurai's wife

Tajomaru

The priest

The woodcutter
8 Who does not act as a witness to court testimonies?
The commoner

The priest

The woodcutter

The policeman
9 Who adopts the baby at the end of the film?
The priest

The wife

The commoner

The woodcutter
10 What is the Rashomon?
The name of the samurai

The name of the region

The name of the city-gate

The name of the king
11 Which character defends lies so long as they are "entertaining"?
Tajomaru

The commoner

The woodcutter

The priest
12 Who dies in the all versions of the story?
The samurai's wife

The samurai

The woodcutter

Tajomaru
13 What year was Rashomon released?
1945

1950

1948

1949
14 Which of the following is not a location in the film?
The Rashomon gate

The courthouse

The grove

The city
15 Where does the commoner suggest the Rashomon gate might hide corpses?
The basement

The roof

The walls

The garden
16 Who in the film testifies about committing suicide?
The samurai's ghost and the wife

The samurai's ghost and Tajomaru

The wife and the woodcutter

Tajomaru and the wife
17 How does Tajomaru claim he tricked the samurai?
Telling him a riddle

Leading him to buried treasure

Hypnotizing him

Claiming to have magical powers
18 Who tells the first story of the events leading up to the samurai's death?
The woodcutter

The wife

The samurai's ghost

Tajomaru
19 In her tale, how does the wife try to kill herself?
Poisoning

Hanging

Drowning

Stabbing
20 How does the court communicate with the dead samurai?
By using a psychic medium

By using a Ouija board

By reading his last will and testament

By reading tea leaves
21 What are the woodcutter and the priest doing at the very beginning of the film?
Staring at the rain

Sleeping

Eating

Gathering firewood
22 Who discovers the samurai's body?
The priest

The commoner

The woodcutter

The policeman
23 Who captures and brings Tajomaru to court?
The policeman

The priest

The commoner

The woodcutter
24 How does the priest describe the wife's testimony?
Vengeful and petty

Docile and pathetic

Fierce and strong-willed

Dry and toneless
25 Which character announces he might lose his faith in the human soul?
The commoner

The priest

The woodcutter

The policeman

The "Rashomon effect" occurs whenever at least two witnesses provide competing testimonies about a given event. The word is attributed to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, which in turn is adapted from Ryu Akutagawa's short stories "Rashomon"...

Asked by Donald T #876374

Answered by Aslan on 9/15/2022 9:36 PM