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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) Gorky.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

4. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Tantamount.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Possible.
(d) Impossible.

5. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

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

4. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?

5. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

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