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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 two virtues did Kurosawa's father attribute to movies in Babyhood?
(a) Escapist and productive.
(b) Stimulating and patriotic.
(c) Commericial and artistic.
(d) Entertaining and educational.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In The Gleam of Fireflies, who wrote a new speech to replace the one young Akira was given?

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

4. At the end of The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa says that is sorry children of today do not have what?

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

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