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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 9 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Crybaby, how did Kurosawa's older brother try to toughen him up in preparation face bullies?
(a) He pushes him into a river.
(b) He beats him up.
(c) He forced him to eat a worm.
(d) He calls him bad names.

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

3. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1947.

4. What two virtues did Kurosawa's father attribute to movies in Babyhood?
(a) Entertaining and educational.
(b) Escapist and productive.
(c) Stimulating and patriotic.
(d) Commericial and artistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?

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

3. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?

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

5. Where did young Akira's father like to take his son addition to the cinema?

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