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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?
(a) Alexander Grin.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Michail Carwovsky.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

2. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Communicative.
(b) Determined.
(c) Composite.
(d) Expansive.

3. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(b) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(c) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Meaning of existence.
(b) Evil.
(c) Mankind.
(d) God.

5. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?
(a) The Realistic Movement.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Modern art.
(d) Dadaism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?

3. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

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

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