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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) More sentimental.
(c) More practical.
(d) Less loving.

2. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) She does not replace it.
(b) She goes back to the site of the duel that night and collects the lost item.
(c) She gave him another that belonged to his brother.
(d) She quietly buys him a new one.

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

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) He was too remote an individual.
(d) His knowledge was inferior.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What memory brings tears to Kurosawa's eyes as he recalls it in Whirlwind?

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