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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were the streets of Kurosawa's neighborhood lit the on night of September 1, 1923?
(a) Torches.
(b) Candles.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Emergency generators.

2. What did young Akira do in Toyokawa Village to impress his fellow young people?
(a) Draw them pictures.
(b) Steal booze.
(c) Jump off waterfalls.
(d) Tell them about Tokyo.

3. In Murasaki and Shonagon, what does Uekusa recall about Kurosawa in school?
(a) He was painfully shy.
(b) He was more popular as he got older.
(c) He fought other kids often.
(d) All the girls had crushes on him.

4. With whom dis young Akira explore the destroyed city in A Horrifying Excursion?
(a) His brother.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa.
(c) Uekusa.
(d) His father.

5. What is the name of the leftist group that Kurosawa joined in the 1930's?
(a) Artists Against Subjugation.
(b) United Writers Front.
(c) Proletariat Artist League.
(d) Workers Creative Alliance.

6. 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 master storytellers.
(d) To picnics in the park.

7. The mean nickname the children gave Kurosawa at Morimura Gakuen implied that he had tears large as what?
(a) Baseballs.
(b) Gum drops.
(c) Rice balls.
(d) Icicles.

8. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?
(a) To repay him for his praise.
(b) To work harder to impress him.
(c) To ignore his criticism.
(d) To get back at him for his wrongs.

9. What violent event occurred in Akira Kurosawa's first memory?
(a) He was slapped by his mother.
(b) An earthwuake happened.
(c) He fell off a table.
(d) He was born.

10. What changed for Akira Kurosawa after the fight described in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) No one every tried to fight him again.
(b) He had to fight the kids every time he walked to his lessons.
(c) He became more dedicated to his Kendo lessons.
(d) He had to take a longer rout to his lessons.

11. How does Akira characterize the songs of the Taisho age in Japan?
(a) Cacophonous.
(b) Erotic.
(c) Lugubrious.
(d) Optimistic.

12. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?
(a) His kendo outift.
(b) His bento box.
(c) His bamboo rod.
(d) His school books.

13. From what book are the two soldiers that Kurosawa used to describe himself and Uekusa as children?
(a) The Mahabarata.
(b) Taketori Monogatari.
(c) The Pillow Book.
(d) Henry V.

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

15. How was Akira Kurosawa affected by seeing Forgotten Children in the theater?
(a) He weeps uncontrollably.
(b) He loudly protests that it is lousy.
(c) He becomes ill and walks out.
(d) He gives it a standing ovation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two virtues did Kurosawa's father attribute to movies in Babyhood?

2. Why was Akira Kurosawa humiliated in his early memory about his nurse?

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

4. What catastrophic event happened on September 1, 1923?

5. In what two subjects did young Akira fail his exams in this section?

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