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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?
(a) Demiurge.
(b) God.
(c) Saint.
(d) Martyr.

2. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Love.
(b) Art.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Beauty.

3. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?
(a) Inner freedom.
(b) Inner strength.
(c) Inner wisdom.
(d) Inner courage.

4. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Old Woman.
(b) Narrator.
(c) Natalia.
(d) Nadezhda.

5. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Robert Bresson.
(b) Chapayev.
(c) Igmar Berman.
(d) Donatas Banionis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

3. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

4. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

5. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

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