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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Dependent.
(d) Reactive.

2. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Homer.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Ovid.

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) For the people.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Truthful.

4. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Alexander Grin.
(d) Thomas Mann.

5. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
(a) Vox magnum.
(b) Mons populii.
(c) Vox populii.
(d) Magnum vox.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

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

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

4. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

5. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

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