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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. What changed for young Akira after the event of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) Nothing changed.
(b) He always went to school with Uekusa.
(c) He never rode the train at rush hour.
(d) He walked to school.

2. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?
(a) He becomes ill and walks out.
(b) He weeps uncontrollably.
(c) He gives it a standing ovation.
(d) He loudly protests that it is lousy.

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

4. In what type of structure did the old man mentioned at the end of A Distant Village live?
(a) A tent.
(b) A lean-to.
(c) A hovel.
(d) A trench.

5. At the end of The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa says that is sorry children of today do not have what?
(a) The fresh air he had.
(b) The quality of food he had.
(c) The sounds of his childhood.
(d) The sense of national pride he had.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?

2. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?

3. Years later, what does Kurosawa think about his brother's insistence that they explore the carnage in A Horrifying Excursion?

4. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?

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

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