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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Cold War.
(b) The Russian-Siberian War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

2. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Paul Valéry.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Absolute laws.
(c) Governmental control.
(d) Regulation.

4. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1978.

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. What filming technique did Tarkovsky implement more in The Sacrifice than in any of his other films?

2. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?

3. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?

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

5. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

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