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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did young Akira's father like to take his son addition to the cinema?
(a) To cricket matches.
(b) To the local shrines.
(c) To picnics in the park.
(d) To master storytellers.

3. What two virtues did Kurosawa's father attribute to movies in Babyhood?
(a) Entertaining and educational.
(b) Escapist and productive.
(c) Commericial and artistic.
(d) Stimulating and patriotic.

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

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

6. When visiting his father's hometown, Akira was confused when the elders did what?
(a) Asked him to read some calligraphy.
(b) Toasted him.
(c) Kissed his hand.
(d) Asked after his uncle.

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

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

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

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

11. What act by Uekusa in Murasaki and Shonagon surprised and infuriated Kurosawa at the time?
(a) He asked out a girl Kurosawa liked.
(b) He charged a gang of bullies.
(c) He lost Kurosawa's favorite robe.
(d) He made a picture that Tachikawa liked.

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

13. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?
(a) He was too remote an individual.
(b) He expected too little of his pupils.
(c) He was the smartest man he ever met.
(d) His knowledge was inferior.

14. What love besides movies did Akira's father pass down to him?
(a) Love of beautiful woman.
(b) Love of sports.
(c) Love of reading.
(d) Love of fine food.

15. What colored animal did Akira Kurosawa think his family should have gotten when he was young?
(a) A yellow canary.
(b) A gray cat.
(c) A black dog.
(d) A goldfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Akira Kurosawa try to work as fast as possible to finish his calligraphy lessons?

2. What did Kurosawa's teachers at Morimura Gakuen mistakenly believe about him?

3. What was the result of Uekusa's telling the girl's father that he loved her in Murasaki and Shonagon?

4. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?

5. When the Depression hits Japan, what did Akira felt bad about his parents paying for what?

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