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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who starred in the film, Persona?
(a) Elizabeth Poin.
(b) Liv Ullmann.
(c) Sara Martinez.
(d) Maria A'delair.

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Ugetsu Monogatari.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(b) Alexander Kruschev.
(c) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(d) Ivan Bondarev.

4. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Truman Capote.

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Not short.
(c) Impossible to demonstrate.
(d) Not long.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

2. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?

3. What is the title of Chapter IV?

4. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

5. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."

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