I'm not so sure about Mizoguchi and the "make a hard decision" question. His first instinct in every situation seems to be "How will this impact me personally?" I agree he isn't a totally bad guy, because this isn't that kind of show. But he's the only one who did anything remotely as nasty as using Kenji's daughter to try and mess with his head.
I think in the end all of these exam phases are designed to try and answer one question: How will these people react when everything goes to hell and everyone's life hangs on how they perform? It's impossible to truly know the answer to that, so all of these tests are designed to fill in the blanks and reduce uncertainty as much as possible.
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