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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

2. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Bollingsworth.
(d) Hemingway.

3. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) 10 seconds.
(b) 2 minutes.
(c) 50 seconds.
(d) 5 minutes.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Absolute laws.
(b) Regulation.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Governmental control.

5. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) The Killer.
(d) Nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?

2. 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"?

3. 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?

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?

5. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

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