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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 9 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Crybaby, what honor was eventually given with the assistance of Mr. Tachikawa?
(a) Flag bearer.
(b) Class President.
(c) Prom king.
(d) Represntative to the Imperial Coucil.

2. What did Akira decide to do regarding the two speeches he was given to read?
(a) He declined to read any speech.
(b) He improvised at the podium.
(c) He read the other speech.
(d) He read the hated teacher's speech.

3. Why dis Kurosawa get selected for a renowned Kendo School?
(a) He impressed the instructor at a demonstration.
(b) His arms were determined to be of the right length.
(c) He wrote an impassioned letter to the instructor.
(d) He was chosen at random.

4. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?
(a) He submitted it to agovernmental review.
(b) He criticized it harshly.
(c) He praised it intemperately.
(d) He barely noticed it.

5. At the end of The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa says that is sorry children of today do not have what?
(a) The quality of food he had.
(b) The sense of national pride he had.
(c) The fresh air he had.
(d) The sounds of his childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What love besides movies did Akira's father pass down to him?

2. What act by Uekusa in Murasaki and Shonagon surprised and infuriated Kurosawa at the time?

3. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?

4. In The Gleam of Fireflies, why was Kurosawa uncomfortable with the speech given him?

5. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?

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