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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 10 seconds.
(c) 50 seconds.
(d) 2 minutes.

2. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(b) Solaris.
(c) There Will be No Leave Today.
(d) The Killers.

3. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?
(a) Sweden.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

4. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Communicative.
(b) Expansive.
(c) Composite.
(d) Determined.

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) Man.
(d) Cinema.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

2. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

3. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

4. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?

5. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?

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