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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) Solaris.
(b) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(c) The Killers.
(d) There Will be No Leave Today.

2. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1951.

3. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Andrey Rublev.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Kenji Mizoguchi.

4. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?
(a) Alexander Grin.
(b) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Alexander Herzen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

2. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?

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

4. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

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

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