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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Understanding.

3. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Time.

4. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Truman Capote.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

5. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?
(a) Donatas Banionis.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Andrey Rublyov.
(d) Sergei Eisenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?

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

3. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

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

5. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

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