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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Marsh.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

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

3. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
(a) Meisner.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Stanislavsky.

4. 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"?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Time.

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

3. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?

4. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

5. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

(see the answer key)

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