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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 17 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a daily appointment Kurosawa had to keep in childhood?
(a) Kendo lessons.
(b) Visiting his grandmother.
(c) Calligraphy lessons.
(d) Visiting Mr. Tachikawa.

3. What assertion does Kurosawa refute at the beginning of Keika Middle School?
(a) He never wrote his own screenplays.
(b) He cried at this graduation.
(c) He had no physical strength.
(d) He was afraid of girls.

4. Why was Akira Kurosawa humiliated in his early memory about his nurse?
(a) She dressed him like a girl.
(b) She batted him around like a kitten.
(c) She never changed his diaper.
(d) She held him while using the toilet.

5. In The Gleam of Fireflies, why was Kurosawa uncomfortable with the speech given him?
(a) It is poorly worded.
(b) It is distinctly pro-military.
(c) It lauds the teacher he hates.
(d) It is not of his own creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many family members did Akira Kurosawa lose in the events of September 1, 1923?

2. What memory brings tears to Kurosawa's eyes as he recalls it in Whirlwind?

3. As told in Storytellers, what image in a movie reduced young Akira to inconsolable tears?

4. In Crybaby, what honor was eventually given with the assistance of Mr. Tachikawa?

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

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