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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 stagnations.
(b) Two pauses.
(c) Two missions.
(d) Two conflicts.

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

3. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Leon Battista Alberti.

4. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) God.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Truth.

5. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Millardeaux.
(b) LaSalle.
(c) Proust.
(d) Bordeaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

2. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

3. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

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

5. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

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