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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 17 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?
(a) He was painfully shy.
(b) He was more popular as he got older.
(c) He fought other kids often.
(d) All the girls had crushes on him.

2. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?
(a) Used a dirty word.
(b) Complimented his form.
(c) Picked him up in a bout.
(d) Bowed to him.

3. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?
(a) He is Chinese.
(b) He is always fighting the other children.
(c) He isolates himself from the other children.
(d) He is twice as tall as the other children.

4. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) No one every tried to fight him again.
(b) He became more dedicated to his Kendo lessons.
(c) He had to fight the kids every time he walked to his lessons.
(d) He had to take a longer rout to his lessons.

5. Where did young Akira's father like to take his son addition to the cinema?
(a) To master storytellers.
(b) To the local shrines.
(c) To cricket matches.
(d) To picnics in the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?

2. To what does Akira Kurosawa compare the dead animal from his memory in Babyhood?

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

4. What colored animal did Akira Kurosawa think his family should have gotten when he was young?

5. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?

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