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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Shakespearean play did Tarkovsky direct for the Moscow stage?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

3. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Marsh.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) God.
(b) Evil.
(c) Meaning of existence.
(d) Mankind.

5. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?

3. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?

4. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

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

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