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

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

3. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He became more dedicated to his Kendo lessons.
(b) No one every tried to fight him again.
(c) He had to take a longer rout to his lessons.
(d) He had to fight the kids every time he walked to his lessons.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Morimura Gakuen, Kusosawa argues that children should not be judged merely by what?

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

3. What two virtues did Kurosawa's father attribute to movies in Babyhood?

4. What love besides movies did Akira's father pass down to him?

5. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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