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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 does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?
(a) Realistic performance.
(b) Modern art.
(c) Stylistic art.
(d) Poetic cinema.

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

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

4. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Kapiyev.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Ivanov.
(d) Stavrogin.

5. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Storyboard.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Post-production script.
(d) Production script.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?

3. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

4. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

5. Who starred in the film, Persona?

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