Something Like an Autobiography Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Something Like an Autobiography Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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 physical reaction that Kurosawa had to being challenged in primary school?
(a) He wet himself.
(b) He fainted.
(c) He hyperventilated.
(d) He held his breath.

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

3. What did Kurosawa's father insist he do if he is to take Kendo lessons?
(a) Give up art lessons.
(b) Get straight A's at school.
(c) Read Lao Tsu.
(d) Make daily offering at a temple.

4. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?
(a) He encuraged personal creativity.
(b) He let children decide when they were done with a picture.
(c) He taught the children art history.
(d) He never hung up art work.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?

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

4. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?

5. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?

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