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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 was the subject of Inagaki Hiroshi's movie Forgotten Children?
(a) Retarded children.
(b) Child soldiers.
(c) Paralyzed children.
(d) Child prostitutes.

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

3. Who sent Akira to Toyokawa Village for the summer after his fifth grade year?
(a) Mr. Tachikawa.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His military teacher,

4. How does Mr. Iwamatsu respond to students who are struggling with exams?
(a) He tells them the answers.
(b) He shrugs.
(c) He mocks them mercilessly.
(d) He helps them through problems.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?

2. Reading his family tree, young Akira realize his ancestors included whom?

3. Which of the following is not a physical reaction that Kurosawa had to being challenged in primary school?

4. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?

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

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