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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) The Killers.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Sacrifice.

3. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Carpaccio.
(b) Humphries.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Da Vinci.

4. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Ugetsu Monogatari.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(c) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?

2. 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."

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

4. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?

5. 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?

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