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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VI?
(a) The Stalker.
(b) The Author in Search of an Audience.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Artist's Responsibility.

2. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1978.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Truth.
(b) God.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Faith.

4. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Story.
(b) Peace.
(c) Reality.
(d) Quality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

3. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

4. Who starred in the film, Persona?

5. What is the title of Chapter II?

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