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

2. How many family members did Akira Kurosawa lose in the events of September 1, 1923?
(a) None.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

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

4. Why did Akira choose to leave the Proletariat Artists League?
(a) He was more talented than his colleagues.
(b) It didn't pay enough.
(c) It though he was a government agent.
(d) He did not agree with its politics.

5. 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 kendo outift.
(c) His bento box.
(d) His school books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reading his family tree, young Akira realize his ancestors included whom?

2. In Crybaby, how did Kurosawa's older brother try to toughen him up in preparation face bullies?

3. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?

4. Why was Akira Kurosawa humiliated in his early memory about his nurse?

5. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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