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

2. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He won her hand in marriage.
(b) He never saw her again.
(c) He got beaten by the father.
(d) He got one date with her.

3. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?
(a) Bowed to him.
(b) Picked him up in a bout.
(c) Complimented his form.
(d) Used a dirty word.

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

5. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?
(a) He sent her an orchid every day for a year.
(b) He opened every door for her one day.
(c) He painted a portrait of her.
(d) He waited for her all night with a love letter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Crybaby, what was the subject of Kurosawa's artwork that Tachikawa praised?

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

4. What colored animal did Akira Kurosawa think his family should have gotten when he was young?

5. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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