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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."
(a) Public satisfaction.
(b) Wall Street.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Industry.

2. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 2 years.

3. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?
(a) Rich.
(b) Free.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Lying.

4. 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) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Raphael.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

2. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?

3. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

4. 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"?

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

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