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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Nostalgia.

2. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.

3. Who was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Friedrich Engels.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Vladimir Lenin.
(d) Mikhail Gorbachev.

4. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) Sweden.
(d) France.

5. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) 10 seconds.
(b) 2 minutes.
(c) 50 seconds.
(d) 5 minutes.

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. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?

3. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

4. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

5. 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?

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