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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What changed for young Akira after the event of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) He never rode the train at rush hour.
(b) He always went to school with Uekusa.
(c) Nothing changed.
(d) He walked to school.

3. 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.

4. What weakness does Kurosawa concede in Keika Middle School?
(a) He cannot do a chin-up.
(b) He cannot do a squat-thrust.
(c) He cannot do a sit-up.
(d) He cannot run a mile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What great act of devotion did Uekusa make regarding a girl as a child?

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

3. What role did Uekusa Keinosuke later play in Kurosawa's professional life?

4. With what evocative metaphor does Kurosawa describe his smugness in the second chapter of this section?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What memories does Akira Kurosawa have about movies in his childhood?

2. What embarrassments did young Akira experience at his father's hometown?

3. How did Kurosawa's brother toughen him up as a child?

4. What ethical dilemma did Kurosawa face at his graduation?

5. In Whirlwind, what sort of decline did Akira's older brother have?

6. Describe Akira's relationship with Aunt Togashi.

7. How was young Akira humbled in The Goblin's Nose?

8. What is Akira Kurosawa's earliest memory?

9. In Honor and Revere, how did Akira improve his math skills?

10. How was Kurosawa nearly killed on the way to school in this section?

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