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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?
(a) Never sees it.
(b) Dwells on it.
(c) Stops thinking about it.
(d) Re-edits it.

2. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) The Stalker.
(b) Cinema's Destined Role.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Beginning.

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

4. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Russian-Siberian War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Cold War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?

2. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."

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

4. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?

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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