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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 9 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changed for young Akira after the event of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) He always went to school with Uekusa.
(b) He never rode the train at rush hour.
(c) Nothing changed.
(d) He walked to school.

2. How does Akira characterize the songs of the Taisho age in Japan?
(a) Lugubrious.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Erotic.
(d) Cacophonous.

3. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?
(a) He isolates himself from the other children.
(b) He is always fighting the other children.
(c) He is Chinese.
(d) He is twice as tall as the other children.

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

5. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) His bamboo rod.
(b) His bento box.
(c) His school books.
(d) His kendo outift.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?

3. What violent event occurred in Akira Kurosawa's first memory?

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

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

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