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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 subject was Kurosawa's older brother in love with when he failed his final exam?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Kendo.
(c) Foreign literature.
(d) Calligraphy.

2. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) She gave him another that belonged to his brother.
(b) She goes back to the site of the duel that night and collects the lost item.
(c) She quietly buys him a new one.
(d) She does not replace it.

3. In A Distant Village, what did Akira do when after he got drunk on sake?
(a) He vomited on his cousin.
(b) He kissed a strange woman.
(c) He fell in a rice paddy.
(d) He passed out next to a water ox.

4. In The Gleam of Fireflies, who wrote a new speech to replace the one young Akira was given?
(a) Mr. Tachikawa.
(b) Uekusa.
(c) Akira's older brother.
(d) Akira.

5. In My Rebellious Phase, what dangerous material did Akira use on some of his pranks?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Arsenic.
(c) Raw sodium.
(d) Gunpowder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?

2. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?

3. At the end of The Long Red Brick Wall, what did Kurosawa do as he walked to school?

4. Which ethnic group was hunted and killed in the darkness following September 1, 1923?

5. To whom does Kurosawa compare teachers like Mr. Iwamatsu at the end of Honor and Revere?

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