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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Trigger.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Falsehood.

2. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Henry VI.
(b) King James I.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Richard III.

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Mankind.
(b) God.
(c) Evil.
(d) Meaning of existence.

4. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Truth.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Beauty.

5. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

2. What French film director directed, L'Argent?

3. Who is the author of War and Peace?

4. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

5. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

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