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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the leftist group that Kurosawa joined in the 1930's?
(a) Workers Creative Alliance.
(b) Proletariat Artist League.
(c) Artists Against Subjugation.
(d) United Writers Front.

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

3. 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.

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

5. In Morimura Gakuen, Kusosawa argues that children should not be judged merely by what?
(a) Ability.
(b) Age.
(c) Economic background.
(d) Appearance.

6. What was different about the way Mr. Tachikawa taught art at Kuroda?
(a) He let children decide when they were done with a picture.
(b) He never hung up art work.
(c) He encuraged personal creativity.
(d) He taught the children art history.

7. What changed for young Akira after the event of A Long Red Brick Wall?
(a) He always went to school with Uekusa.
(b) He walked to school.
(c) Nothing changed.
(d) He never rode the train at rush hour.

8. Which star's westerns does Kurosawa particularly recall enjoying in Storytellers?
(a) John Wayne.
(b) Clint Eastwood.
(c) Roy Rogers.
(d) William S. Hart.

9. In addition to art, what was young Akira's favorite subject?
(a) History.
(b) Physical education.
(c) Literature.
(d) Science.

10. What act by Uekusa in Murasaki and Shonagon surprised and infuriated Kurosawa at the time?
(a) He lost Kurosawa's favorite robe.
(b) He charged a gang of bullies.
(c) He asked out a girl Kurosawa liked.
(d) He made a picture that Tachikawa liked.

11. In The Gleam of Fireflies, who wrote a new speech to replace the one young Akira was given?
(a) Akira's older brother.
(b) Mr. Tachikawa.
(c) Akira.
(d) Uekusa.

12. In Keika Middle School, what event did young Akira win at his school?
(a) The shotput.
(b) The high jump.
(c) The mini-marathon.
(d) The sprint.

13. To whom does Kurosawa compare teachers like Mr. Iwamatsu at the end of Honor and Revere?
(a) His parents.
(b) His directing mentors.
(c) His actors.
(d) Himelf.

14. What resolution did Kurosawa make regarding his new art teacher?
(a) To get back at him for his wrongs.
(b) To repay him for his praise.
(c) To work harder to impress him.
(d) To ignore his criticism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a physical reaction that Kurosawa had to being challenged in primary school?

2. How did his mother replace the item that Kurosawa lost in his duel in Murasaki and Shonagon?

3. From what book are the two soldiers that Kurosawa used to describe himself and Uekusa as children?

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

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

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