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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Evgeny Zharikov.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

2. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Finale.
(b) Falling placement.
(c) Ending.
(d) Denouement.

3. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Donatas Banionis.
(b) Robert Bresson.
(c) Sergei Eisenstein.
(d) Igmar Berman.

4. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Tarkovsky.
(b) Smoktunovsky.
(c) Bogomolov.
(d) Kuleshov.

5. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?
(a) Prosteete.
(b) Plrotoft.
(c) Prstost.
(d) Regretsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?

4. 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")?

5. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?

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