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

2. What role did Uekusa Keinosuke later play in Kurosawa's professional life?
(a) Director of Photography.
(b) Producer.
(c) Assistant Director.
(d) Screenwriter.

3. What did Kurosawa's father insist he do if he is to take Kendo lessons?
(a) Give up art lessons.
(b) Read Lao Tsu.
(c) Get straight A's at school.
(d) Make daily offering at a temple.

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

5. What did Kurosawa and Uekusa Keinosuke have in common when they met?
(a) They both loved film.
(b) They both took kendo lessons.
(c) They were both form Tekeni Prefecture.
(d) They both cried all the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Kendo, how does Akira Kurosawa characterize his mother in comparison to his father?

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

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

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

5. In Crybaby, what was the subject of Kurosawa's artwork that Tachikawa praised?

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