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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Reality.
(b) Peace.
(c) Story.
(d) Quality.

2. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1977.

3. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Paul Valéry.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) Cock.
(b) Little boy.
(c) Mother.
(d) River.

5. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Immediate.
(c) Pronounced.
(d) Heightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?

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 French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?

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

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