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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 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.

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

3. Where is young Akira in his earliest memory?
(a) The womb.
(b) His mother's arms.
(c) A wash basin.
(d) A crib.

4. At the end of The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa says that is sorry children of today do not have what?
(a) The sounds of his childhood.
(b) The fresh air he had.
(c) The quality of food he had.
(d) The sense of national pride he had.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Kurosawa lose in his duel with the gang of students that attack him in Murasaki and Shonagon?

3. In Calligraphy, what is Kurosawa's feeling about his childhood teacher?

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

5. What colored animal did Akira Kurosawa think his family should have gotten when he was young?

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