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

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

3. What did Kurosawa's father insist he do if he is to take Kendo lessons?
(a) Make daily offering at a temple.
(b) Get straight A's at school.
(c) Read Lao Tsu.
(d) Give up art lessons.

4. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?
(a) He gives it a standing ovation.
(b) He weeps uncontrollably.
(c) He loudly protests that it is lousy.
(d) He becomes ill and walks out.

5. Where is young Akira in his earliest memory?
(a) His mother's arms.
(b) The womb.
(c) A crib.
(d) A wash basin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the subject of Inagaki Hiroshi's movie Forgotten Children?

2. Why did Akira Kurosawa try to work as fast as possible to finish his calligraphy lessons?

3. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?

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

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

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