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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1974.

4. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Donatas Banionis.
(b) Chapayev.
(c) Robert Bresson.
(d) Igmar Berman.

5. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?
(a) Demiurge.
(b) God.
(c) Saint.
(d) Martyr.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

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

3. Who is the author of War and Peace?

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. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

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