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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Karishnakov.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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?
(a) Truth.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Salvation.
(d) God.

4. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Man.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Art.
(d) Literature.

5. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Mark Allen White.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

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

3. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

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

5. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

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