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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Communicative.
(b) Expansive.
(c) Determined.
(d) Composite.

2. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) Sameul Beckett.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) James Joyce.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

4. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Ivanov.
(b) Stavrogin.
(c) Kapiyev.
(d) Pasternak.

5. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Thomas Mann.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

3. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?

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

5. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?

(see the answer key)

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