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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Russian-Siberian War.
(d) World War I.

2. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1951.

3. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Robert Burns.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Meaning of existence.
(b) Mankind.
(c) God.
(d) Evil.

5. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Composite.
(b) Communicative.
(c) Determined.
(d) Expansive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

2. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

3. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

5. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

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