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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Man.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Art.
(d) Literature.

2. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Paul Valéry.

3. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Ugetsu Monogatari.

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

5. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Art.
(b) Hideousness.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

2. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?

3. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."

4. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

5. 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"?

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