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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 subject of Inagaki Hiroshi's movie Forgotten Children?
(a) Child prostitutes.
(b) Paralyzed children.
(c) Child soldiers.
(d) Retarded children.

2. What subject was Kurosawa's older brother in love with when he failed his final exam?
(a) Calligraphy.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Kendo.
(d) Foreign literature.

3. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?
(a) He submitted it to agovernmental review.
(b) He criticized it harshly.
(c) He barely noticed it.
(d) He praised it intemperately.

4. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?
(a) He was painfully shy.
(b) All the girls had crushes on him.
(c) He fought other kids often.
(d) He was more popular as he got older.

5. What catastrophic event happened on September 1, 1923?
(a) A typhoon.
(b) A firebombing.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what two subjects did young Akira fail his exams in this section?

2. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?

3. What was the source of explosions that intermittently went off in the wake of September 1, 1923's catastrophe?

4. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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

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