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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what public conveyance was young Akira during the events of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) A tram.
(b) A rickshaw.
(c) A streetcar.
(d) A train.

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

3. What ridiculous order did Kurosawa give his platoon as leader?
(a) He directs them to to fire in the air.
(b) He marches them into a wall.
(c) He orders them to go to sleep.
(d) He orders them to take off their clothes.

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

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

6. What catastrophic event happened on September 1, 1923?
(a) A typhoon.
(b) A firebombing.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tornado.

7. In what two subjects did young Akira fail his exams in this section?
(a) Literature and math.
(b) Literature and history.
(c) Math and science.
(d) Science and history.

8. To what does Akira Kurosawa compare the dead animal from his memory in Babyhood?
(a) Sushi.
(b) A plate of spaghetti.
(c) Steak.
(d) A pile of fancid rice.

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

10. With what evocative metaphor does Kurosawa describe his smugness in the second chapter of this section?
(a) Swollen eye.
(b) Leopard's tail.
(c) Goblin's nose.
(d) Orange skin.

11. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?
(a) He waited for her all night with a love letter.
(b) He opened every door for her one day.
(c) He painted a portrait of her.
(d) He sent her an orchid every day for a year.

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

13. In The Gleam of Fireflies, who wrote a new speech to replace the one young Akira was given?
(a) Akira.
(b) Akira's older brother.
(c) Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) Uekusa.

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

15. What item that a doctor ordered Togashi to eat does Akira Kurosawa blame for her death?
(a) Elderberries.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Ginger.
(d) Tree roots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject was Kurosawa's older brother in love with when he failed his final exam?

2. The mean nickname the children gave Kurosawa at Morimura Gakuen implied that he had tears large as what?

3. What was the source of explosions that intermittently went off in the wake of September 1, 1923's catastrophe?

4. What was the result of Uekusa's charge up a hill at a group of ruffians in Murasaki and Shonagon?

5. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?

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