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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. 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) Mr. Tachikawa.
(d) His mother.

2. In Kendo, what does Kurosawa recall his father doing in the morning during the war years?
(a) Meditating behind the house.
(b) Weeping bitterly in his bedroom.
(c) Cooking breakfast for the family.
(d) Watching the children walk to school.

3. Which of the following is not a physical reaction that Kurosawa had to being challenged in primary school?
(a) He hyperventilated.
(b) He wet himself.
(c) He fainted.
(d) He held his breath.

4. Why dis Kurosawa get selected for a renowned Kendo School?
(a) He was chosen at random.
(b) His arms were determined to be of the right length.
(c) He wrote an impassioned letter to the instructor.
(d) He impressed the instructor at a demonstration.

5. In Murasaki and Shonagon, how does Kurosawa assume he knew about the literary soldiers he referenced as a child?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father.
(c) His calligraphy teacher.
(d) Mr. Tachikawa.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?

4. How did the new art teacher at Kurosawa's school respond to his art work?

5. In The Fragrance of Meiji, the Sounds of Taisho, Kurosawa recalls the smells and sounds of what year in Japan?

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