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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Governmental control.
(b) Regulation.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Absolute laws.

2. 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) God.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Truth.
(d) Freedom.

3. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) Free.
(b) True.
(c) Assertive.
(d) Creative.

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

5. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?
(a) Luis Bunuel.
(b) Sergei Eisenstein.
(c) Pavel Florensky.
(d) Andrey Rublyov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VI?

2. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

3. 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"?

4. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

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