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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Overwhelming.
(b) Vague.
(c) Large.
(d) Slight.

2. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) After Nostalgia.
(b) The Beginning.
(c) The Author in Search of an Audience.
(d) The Artist's Responsibility.

3. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Film Image.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

4. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1880.

5. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Possible.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Tantamount.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

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

3. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?

4. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?

5. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?

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