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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 25 through 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the source of explosions that intermittently went off in the wake of September 1, 1923's catastrophe?
(a) A bombing raid.
(b) An armory.
(c) A fireworks stand.
(d) A burst gas mane.

2. What violent event occurred in Akira Kurosawa's first memory?
(a) He was slapped by his mother.
(b) He fell off a table.
(c) He was born.
(d) An earthwuake happened.

3. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) His bamboo rod.
(b) His school books.
(c) His bento box.
(d) His kendo outift.

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. Who sent Akira to Toyokawa Village for the summer after his fifth grade year?
(a) His mother.
(b) His military teacher,
(c) His father.
(d) Mr. Tachikawa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which ethnic group was hunted and killed in the darkness following September 1, 1923?

3. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?

4. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?

5. What did Kurosawa's teachers at Morimura Gakuen mistakenly believe about him?

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