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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the subject of Inagaki Hiroshi's movie Forgotten Children?
(a) Paralyzed children.
(b) Retarded children.
(c) Child prostitutes.
(d) Child soldiers.

2. 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.

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

4. Why did Akira Kurosawa try to work as fast as possible to finish his calligraphy lessons?
(a) To visit Mr. Tachikawa sooner.
(b) To get home and take a nap.
(c) To become a more efficient calligrapher.
(d) To get away from his instructor as quickly as possible.

5. In Crybaby, what was the subject of Kurosawa's artwork that Tachikawa praised?
(a) Geometric shapes.
(b) A self-portrait.
(c) Smeared colors.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Akira Kurosawa compare the dead animal from his memory in Babyhood?

2. Whose help did Akira Kurosawa eventually employ to convince his father to let him quit calligraphy lessons?

3. Which of the following is not a daily appointment Kurosawa had to keep in childhood?

4. What animal does Kurosawa recall seeing killed by a train at an early age?

5. What did Kurosawa's father insist he do if he is to take Kendo lessons?

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