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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject was Kurosawa's older brother in love with when he failed his final exam?
(a) Kendo.
(b) Calligraphy.
(c) Foreign literature.
(d) Architecture.

2. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?
(a) He becomes ill and walks out.
(b) He loudly protests that it is lousy.
(c) He weeps uncontrollably.
(d) He gives it a standing ovation.

3. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?
(a) He was too remote an individual.
(b) He expected too little of his pupils.
(c) His knowledge was inferior.
(d) He was the smartest man he ever met.

4. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he considers himself what?
(a) A lifelong student.
(b) A child of the planet earth.
(c) A closet westerner.
(d) A perpetual actor.

5. With whom dis young Akira explore the destroyed city in A Horrifying Excursion?
(a) His father.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa.
(c) Uekusa.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Kendo, how does Akira Kurosawa characterize his mother in comparison to his father?

2. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?

3. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?

4. In Honor and Revere, what exam did Kurosawa get 100 percent on?

5. Why was young Akira sent to Toyokawa Village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What importance does Kurosawa place on mentors in Honor and Revere?

2. Describe the memories of sound that Kurosawa describes at the end of this section?

3. What bad relationship did Akira develop at Keika Middle School?

4. How did young Uekusa prove foolhardy?

5. How did the earthquake provide an opportunity for violence in Tokyo?

6. What happened on September 1, 1923?

7. What romantic gesture did Uekusa attempt at sixteen?

8. How does Kurosawa compare his parents' personalities in Kendo?

9. What memories does Akira Kurosawa have about movies in his childhood?

10. What is Akira Kurosawa's earliest memory?

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