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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's father insist he do if he is to take Kendo lessons?
(a) Read Lao Tsu.
(b) Get straight A's at school.
(c) Give up art lessons.
(d) Make daily offering at a temple.

2. What weakness does Kurosawa concede in Keika Middle School?
(a) He cannot do a chin-up.
(b) He cannot run a mile.
(c) He cannot do a sit-up.
(d) He cannot do a squat-thrust.

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

4. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?
(a) His older brother.
(b) His kendo teacher.
(c) Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) His mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why dis Kurosawa get selected for a renowned Kendo School?

2. What assertion does Kurosawa refute at the beginning of Keika Middle School?

3. To what does Akira Kurosawa compare the dead animal from his memory in Babyhood?

4. What love besides movies did Akira's father pass down to him?

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

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