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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Millardeaux.
(b) Proust.
(c) Bordeaux.
(d) LaSalle.

2. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) London.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Moscow.

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

4. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Ingmar Bergman.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Auguste Lumiere.
(d) Francois Indriut.

5. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Art.
(b) Literature.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

3. 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?

4. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

5. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

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