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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 the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) What the cinema was capable of.
(b) Everything.
(c) Government.
(d) Established theory.

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Quality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Story.

3. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Ivanov.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Stavrogin.
(d) Kapiyev.

4. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Larisa Tarkovskaya.
(c) Ignat Daniltsev.
(d) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.

5. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1968
(c) 1982.
(d) 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

5. When was Tarkovsky born?

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