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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1986.

2. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Raphael.

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

4. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."
(a) Grave.
(b) Weight.
(c) Demise.
(d) Tragedy.

5. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

2. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?

3. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?

4. When was the film, Persona, produced?

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?

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