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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?
(a) Time.
(b) Story.
(c) Character.
(d) Space.

2. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two pauses.
(b) Two conflicts.
(c) Two missions.
(d) Two stagnations.

3. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Beckett.

4. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Stalker.

5. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?
(a) Alexander Kaidanovsky.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

2. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

3. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?

4. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

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