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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. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?
(a) They both cried all the time.
(b) They both loved film.
(c) They were both form Tekeni Prefecture.
(d) They both took kendo lessons.

2. At the end of The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa says that is sorry children of today do not have what?
(a) The quality of food he had.
(b) The sense of national pride he had.
(c) The sounds of his childhood.
(d) The fresh air he had.

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

4. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?
(a) Mr. Tachikawa.
(b) His older brother.
(c) His kendo teacher.
(d) His mother.

5. In Crybaby, how did Kurosawa's older brother try to toughen him up in preparation face bullies?
(a) He forced him to eat a worm.
(b) He pushes him into a river.
(c) He beats him up.
(d) He calls him bad names.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act by Uekusa in Murasaki and Shonagon surprised and infuriated Kurosawa at the time?

2. What memory brings tears to Kurosawa's eyes as he recalls it in Whirlwind?

3. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?

4. What role did Uekusa Keinosuke later play in Kurosawa's professional life?

5. Which of the following is not a physical reaction that Kurosawa had to being challenged in primary school?

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