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

2. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he never felt like what?
(a) A citizen of the World.
(b) A native of a particular region.
(c) A particularly good artist.
(d) A lover of life.

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

4. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?
(a) He never hung up art work.
(b) He taught the children art history.
(c) He encuraged personal creativity.
(d) He let children decide when they were done with a picture.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were the streets of Kurosawa's neighborhood lit the on night of September 1, 1923?

3. With what evocative metaphor does Kurosawa describe his smugness in the second chapter of this section?

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

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

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