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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1978.

2. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?
(a) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Alexander Kaidanovsky.

3. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?
(a) Space.
(b) Character.
(c) Story.
(d) Time.

4. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) The rest of their lives.
(b) Their happiness.
(c) Their family security.
(d) Their past.

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

2. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

3. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?

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

5. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?

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