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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1940.

2. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Bollingsworth.

3. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Paul Valéry.
(d) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.

4. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(b) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(c) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(d) I Cor 15, 1-4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

2. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

4. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

5. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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