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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. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1947.

2. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?
(a) He was the smartest man he ever met.
(b) His knowledge was inferior.
(c) He was too remote an individual.
(d) He expected too little of his pupils.

3. Which of the following is not a daily appointment Kurosawa had to keep in childhood?
(a) Visiting his grandmother.
(b) Kendo lessons.
(c) Visiting Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) Calligraphy lessons.

4. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?
(a) He is Chinese.
(b) He isolates himself from the other children.
(c) He is always fighting the other children.
(d) He is twice as tall as the other children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kurosawa describe the style of institution that Kuroda Primary School is?

2. What did Kurosawa's teachers at Morimura Gakuen mistakenly believe about him?

3. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?

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

5. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?

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