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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Understanding.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Metaphor.

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

4. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) The Killers.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Sacrifice.

5. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Ugetsu Monogatari.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Alexander Blok.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?

2. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

3. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

4. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

5. What is the title of Chapter II?

(see the answer key)

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