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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

2. 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) Moscow.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Gorky.
(d) London.

3. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?
(a) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(b) University of Moscow.
(c) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(d) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.

4. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Hideousness.
(b) Art.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Truth.

5. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) Cinema's Destined Role.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Stalker.
(d) The Beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

3. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

4. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

5. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?

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