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

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

3. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?
(a) His kendo teacher.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa.
(c) His mother.
(d) His older brother.

4. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?
(a) He encuraged personal creativity.
(b) He let children decide when they were done with a picture.
(c) He taught the children art history.
(d) He never hung up art work.

5. Which star's westerns does Kurosawa particularly recall enjoying in Storytellers?
(a) Roy Rogers.
(b) William S. Hart.
(c) Clint Eastwood.
(d) John Wayne.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to art, what was young Akira's favorite subject?

2. In Crybaby, what was the subject of Kurosawa's artwork that Tachikawa praised?

3. In Murasaki and Shonagon, how does Kurosawa assume he knew about the literary soldiers he referenced as a child?

4. What new aspect of the curriculum was added to Akira's life in fifth grade?

5. What role did Uekusa Keinosuke later play in Kurosawa's professional life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Akira Kurosawa introduced to film at an early age?

2. Why did Akira Kurosawa not fight in the military?

3. How was Kuosawa's new art teacher different from Mr. Tachikawa?

4. Describe young Akira Kurosawa' daily schedule.

5. Years later, what does Kurosawa think about his brother's insistence that they explore the carnage?

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

7. How was young Akira humbled in The Goblin's Nose?

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

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

10. Why did Akira Kurosawa dislike his calligraphy tutor?

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