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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 17 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what public conveyance was young Akira during the events of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) A streetcar.
(b) A rickshaw.
(c) A tram.
(d) A train.

2. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?
(a) He was more popular as he got older.
(b) All the girls had crushes on him.
(c) He was painfully shy.
(d) He fought other kids often.

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

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

5. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he considers himself what?
(a) A lifelong student.
(b) A closet westerner.
(c) A perpetual actor.
(d) A child of the planet earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What catastrophic event happened on September 1, 1923?

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

4. In Crybaby, how did Kurosawa's older brother try to toughen him up in preparation face bullies?

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

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