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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) Cinema's Destined Role.
(d) The Stalker.

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1965.

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Storyboard.
(b) Post-production script.
(c) Production script.
(d) Shooting script.

4. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Salvation.
(c) God.
(d) Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

3. What term does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?

4. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?

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

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