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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Alexander Marsh.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

2. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Julius Caesar.

3. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) Imprinted Time.
(c) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(d) The Responsibility of the Artist.

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

5. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 30.
(b) 3.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

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

3. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

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

5. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

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