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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 failed.
(b) He passed with flying colors.
(c) He barely passes.
(d) He quits and takes an incomplete.

2. What did Akira decide to do regarding the two speeches he was given to read?
(a) He declined to read any speech.
(b) He read the other speech.
(c) He read the hated teacher's speech.
(d) He improvised at the podium.

3. Why was Akira Kurosawa humiliated in his early memory about his nurse?
(a) She batted him around like a kitten.
(b) She dressed him like a girl.
(c) She held him while using the toilet.
(d) She never changed his diaper.

4. Years later, what does Kurosawa think about his brother's insistence that they explore the carnage in A Horrifying Excursion?
(a) It was good for him.
(b) It was a terrible idea.
(c) They should have helped more people.
(d) His brother was trying to prove himself.

5. What weakness does Kurosawa concede in Keika Middle School?
(a) He cannot run a mile.
(b) He cannot do a chin-up.
(c) He cannot do a sit-up.
(d) He cannot do a squat-thrust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?

2. What assertion does Kurosawa refute at the beginning of Keika Middle School?

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

4. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?

5. How does Akira characterize the songs of the Taisho age in Japan?

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