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

2. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?
(a) A dog.
(b) A possum.
(c) A pony.
(d) A cow.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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