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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

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

4. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Dependent.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Dangerous.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

2. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

3. 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"?

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

5. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

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