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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?
(a) He praised it intemperately.
(b) He barely noticed it.
(c) He submitted it to agovernmental review.
(d) He criticized it harshly.

2. What job in the movies did Kurosawa's brother take in the 1930's?
(a) Narrator.
(b) Photographer.
(c) Set dresser.
(d) Assistant director.

3. How many family members did Akira Kurosawa lose in the events of September 1, 1923?
(a) 10.
(b) None.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. Why was Akira Kurosawa initially rejected for military service?
(a) He was a home-front asset.
(b) He was a left-wing protester.
(c) He was too weak.
(d) He had an education deferment.

5. What memory brings tears to Kurosawa's eyes as he recalls it in Whirlwind?
(a) His brother's failure.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa's dismissal.
(c) His sister's death.
(d) Uekusa's lack of popularity.

6. Why dis Kurosawa get selected for a renowned Kendo School?
(a) He was chosen at random.
(b) He impressed the instructor at a demonstration.
(c) His arms were determined to be of the right length.
(d) He wrote an impassioned letter to the instructor.

7. 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.

8. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?
(a) His kendo teacher.
(b) His mother.
(c) His older brother.
(d) Mr. Tachikawa.

9. Why was young Akira sent to Toyokawa Village?
(a) To learn about his roots.
(b) To get some fresh air.
(c) To strengthen up.
(d) To learn the art of farming.

10. What relation was Togashi to Akira?
(a) His great aunt.
(b) His younger sister.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) She was a family friend.

11. In A Distant Village, what did Akira do when after he got drunk on sake?
(a) He kissed a strange woman.
(b) He fell in a rice paddy.
(c) He passed out next to a water ox.
(d) He vomited on his cousin.

12. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) He got beaten by the father.
(b) He won her hand in marriage.
(c) He got one date with her.
(d) He never saw her again.

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

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

15. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) She goes back to the site of the duel that night and collects the lost item.
(b) She quietly buys him a new one.
(c) She does not replace it.
(d) She gave him another that belonged to his brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom dis young Akira explore the destroyed city in A Horrifying Excursion?

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

3. What did the Kendo instructor at Kurosawa's school do that ingratiated him to Kurosawa?

4. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?

5. At the beginning of A Distant Village, Kurosawa says he never felt like what?

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