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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
(a) Mons populii.
(b) Vox magnum.
(c) Vox populii.
(d) Magnum vox.

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

3. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King James I.
(b) King Richard III.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Henry VI.

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

2. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?

3. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

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