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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 Kendo, how does Akira Kurosawa characterize his mother in comparison to his father?
(a) Less aware.
(b) Less loving.
(c) More sentimental.
(d) More practical.

2. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?
(a) Cooking breakfast for the family.
(b) Watching the children walk to school.
(c) Meditating behind the house.
(d) Weeping bitterly in his bedroom.

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

4. In Crybaby, what was the subject of Kurosawa's artwork that Tachikawa praised?
(a) A self-portrait.
(b) Geometric shapes.
(c) Smeared colors.
(d) A snake.

5. In Murasaki and Shonagon, how does Kurosawa assume he knew about the literary soldiers he referenced as a child?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa.
(c) His father.
(d) His calligraphy teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is young Akira in his earliest memory?

2. What did Kurosawa's father insist he do if he is to take Kendo lessons?

3. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?

4. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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

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