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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. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He was knocked unconscious.
(b) He was beaten with rods.
(c) He became leader og their group.
(d) He chased them off.

2. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He never saw her again.
(b) He got beaten by the father.
(c) He got one date with her.
(d) He won her hand in marriage.

3. From what book are the two soldiers that Kurosawa used to describe himself and Uekusa as children?
(a) Henry V.
(b) The Mahabarata.
(c) The Pillow Book.
(d) Taketori Monogatari.

4. Why was Akira Kurosawa humiliated in his early memory about his nurse?
(a) She never changed his diaper.
(b) She batted him around like a kitten.
(c) She dressed him like a girl.
(d) She held him while using the toilet.

5. What did Akira decide to do regarding the two speeches he was given to read?
(a) He declined to read any speech.
(b) He read the other speech.
(c) He read the hated teacher's speech.
(d) He improvised at the podium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the streets of Kurosawa's neighborhood lit the on night of September 1, 1923?

2. What weakness does Kurosawa concede in Keika Middle School?

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

4. At the end of The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa says that is sorry children of today do not have what?

5. What violent event occurred in Akira Kurosawa's first memory?

(see the answer key)

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