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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Stanislavsky.

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

4. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(c) Ignat Daniltsev.
(d) Larisa Tarkovskaya.

5. 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?
(a) God.
(b) Truth.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Salvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

2. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

3. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?

4. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

5. When was Tarkovsky born?

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