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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

2. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Justification.
(c) Moralizing.
(d) Nationalism.

3. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) The Killer.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

5. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

3. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

4. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?

5. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

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