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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 Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He had to fight the kids every time he walked to his lessons.
(b) He became more dedicated to his Kendo lessons.
(c) He had to take a longer rout to his lessons.
(d) No one every tried to fight him again.

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

3. How did young Akira avoid falling to his death in the events of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) He tucked and rolled.
(b) The vehicle stopped in time.
(c) Another rider held onto him.
(d) He grabbed a railing.

4. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?
(a) An old man's suicide.
(b) A dying sled dog.
(c) A paralyzed infant.
(d) An Egyptian slave girl.

5. In Kendo, how does Akira Kurosawa characterize his mother in comparison to his father?
(a) More sentimental.
(b) Less aware.
(c) Less loving.
(d) More practical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?

2. In Murasaki and Shonagon, how does Kurosawa assume he knew about the literary soldiers he referenced as a child?

3. How were the streets of Kurosawa's neighborhood lit the on night of September 1, 1923?

4. Which of the following is not a daily appointment Kurosawa had to keep in childhood?

5. The mean nickname the children gave Kurosawa at Morimura Gakuen implied that he had tears large as what?

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