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

2. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?
(a) To get back at him for his wrongs.
(b) To ignore his criticism.
(c) To repay him for his praise.
(d) To work harder to impress him.

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

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

5. What memory brings tears to Kurosawa's eyes as he recalls it in Whirlwind?
(a) Mr. Tachikawa's dismissal.
(b) His sister's death.
(c) Uekusa's lack of popularity.
(d) His brother's failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act by Uekusa in Murasaki and Shonagon surprised and infuriated Kurosawa at the time?

2. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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

4. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?

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

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