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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. How did Akira do as a military student?
(a) He passed with flying colors.
(b) He barely passes.
(c) He quits and takes an incomplete.
(d) He failed.

2. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He was knocked unconscious.
(b) He was beaten with rods.
(c) He became leader og their group.
(d) He chased them off.

3. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?
(a) A cow.
(b) A possum.
(c) A dog.
(d) A pony.

4. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?
(a) His knowledge was inferior.
(b) He expected too little of his pupils.
(c) He was too remote an individual.
(d) He was the smartest man he ever met.

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 kendo outift.
(d) His bamboo rod.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?

4. What new aspect of the curriculum was added to Akira's life in fifth grade?

5. In addition to art, what was young Akira's favorite subject?

(see the answer key)

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