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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1983.

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Quality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Story.

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

4. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Killers.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Sacrifice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?

2. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?

3. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?

4. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?

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