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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 33 through 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Crybaby, how did Kurosawa's older brother try to toughen him up in preparation face bullies?
(a) He forced him to eat a worm.
(b) He calls him bad names.
(c) He beats him up.
(d) He pushes him into a river.

2. What did Akira's brother do three days before killing himself?
(a) Bought a cat.
(b) Treated Akira to dinner.
(c) Married his girlfriend.
(d) Sold his projector.

3. In A Story I Don't Want to Tell, who had a premonition that Akira's brother might kill himself?
(a) His younger sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) Akira.

4. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?
(a) They both loved film.
(b) They both took kendo lessons.
(c) They were both form Tekeni Prefecture.
(d) They both cried all the time.

5. In Morimura Gakuen, what is significant about the young boy that Akira Kurosawa mentions specifically from Forgotten Children?
(a) He is twice as tall as the other children.
(b) He isolates himself from the other children.
(c) He is Chinese.
(d) He is always fighting the other children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the primary memory Kuosawa has of a Yamamoto Kajiro set?

2. What weakness does Kurosawa concede in Keika Middle School?

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

4. Who became terrified when they happened upon the shoot of Sugata Sanshiro, Part II?

5. In Morimura Gakuen, Kusosawa argues that children should not be judged merely by what?

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