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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Nostalgia.

2. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Bordeaux.
(b) LaSalle.
(c) Proust.
(d) Millardeaux.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Beauty.
(b) God.
(c) Truth.
(d) Faith.

4. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?
(a) Solaris.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Andrei Rublev.
(d) The Steamroller and the Violin.

5. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
(a) Cousteau.
(b) Bruneil.
(c) Bresson.
(d) Bergman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

2. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

3. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

5. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?

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