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

2. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1930.

3. To what does Akira Kurosawa compare the dead animal from his memory in Babyhood?
(a) Steak.
(b) A plate of spaghetti.
(c) Sushi.
(d) A pile of fancid rice.

4. What violent event occurred in Akira Kurosawa's first memory?
(a) He fell off a table.
(b) He was slapped by his mother.
(c) An earthwuake happened.
(d) He was born.

5. What did Kurosawa's teachers at Morimura Gakuen mistakenly believe about him?
(a) He was American.
(b) He was a musical prodigy.
(c) He was mentally challenged.
(d) He was two years older than he was.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From what book are the two soldiers that Kurosawa used to describe himself and Uekusa as children?

4. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?

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

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