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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) Paradox.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Trigger.

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

3. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1940.

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1959.

5. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Auguste Lumiere.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Francois Indriut.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?

2. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

3. 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?

4. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

5. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

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