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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1986.

2. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Novosibirsk.

3. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?
(a) University of Moscow.
(b) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(c) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(d) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.

4. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.
(b) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.
(c) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(d) State Institute of Cinematography.

5. 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?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

2. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

3. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

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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