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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 1 year.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Point of view.
(c) Morals.
(d) Understanding and love.

4. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two conflicts.
(b) Two pauses.
(c) Two stagnations.
(d) Two missions.

5. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Bollingsworth.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

2. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

3. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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

5. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

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