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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kurosawa describe the style of institution that Kuroda Primary School is?
(a) A special needs school.
(b) A traditional Japanese school.
(c) A highly westernized school.
(d) A military-type school.

2. What love besides movies did Akira's father pass down to him?
(a) Love of beautiful woman.
(b) Love of sports.
(c) Love of fine food.
(d) Love of reading.

3. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?
(a) He never hung up art work.
(b) He let children decide when they were done with a picture.
(c) He taught the children art history.
(d) He encuraged personal creativity.

4. In Morimura Gakuen, Kusosawa argues that children should not be judged merely by what?
(a) Age.
(b) Economic background.
(c) Appearance.
(d) Ability.

5. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?
(a) A pony.
(b) A dog.
(c) A possum.
(d) A cow.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?

4. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?

5. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?

(see the answer key)

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