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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 did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?
(a) They both took kendo lessons.
(b) They were both form Tekeni Prefecture.
(c) They both cried all the time.
(d) They both loved film.

2. How many family members did Akira Kurosawa lose in the events of September 1, 1923?
(a) None.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

3. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?
(a) Used a dirty word.
(b) Complimented his form.
(c) Picked him up in a bout.
(d) Bowed to him.

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

5. What assertion does Kurosawa refute at the beginning of Keika Middle School?
(a) He cried at this graduation.
(b) He never wrote his own screenplays.
(c) He had no physical strength.
(d) He was afraid of girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the source of explosions that intermittently went off in the wake of September 1, 1923's catastrophe?

2. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?

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

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

5. Where did young Akira's father like to take his son addition to the cinema?

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