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

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) Proust.
(b) Millardeaux.
(c) LaSalle.
(d) Bordeaux.

2. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Julius Caesar.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Slow.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Boring.

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Acronymy.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Polylynism.
(d) Metonism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

2. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?

4. What is the title of Chapter IV?

5. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

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