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

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

3. How does Kurosawa describe the style of institution that Kuroda Primary School is?
(a) A military-type school.
(b) A special needs school.
(c) A highly westernized school.
(d) A traditional Japanese school.

4. What assertion does Kurosawa refute at the beginning of Keika Middle School?
(a) He never wrote his own screenplays.
(b) He was afraid of girls.
(c) He cried at this graduation.
(d) He had no physical strength.

5. How was the Keika Middle School destroyed?
(a) It became infested with termines.
(b) It collapsed in the earthquake.
(c) It burned down.
(d) It was flooded by the tsunami.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What terrifying job did Yamamoto Kajiro give Akira as chief assistant?

4. What new aspect of the curriculum was added to Akira's life in fifth grade?

5. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?

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