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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-destruction.
(b) Self-promotion.
(c) Self-denial.
(d) Self-assertion.

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Plots.
(b) Meanings.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Themes.

3. What filming technique did Tarkovsky implement more in The Sacrifice than in any of his other films?
(a) The fade out.
(b) The fade in.
(c) The long shot.
(d) The dolly shot.

4. Who wrote the book Images?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Ingmar Bergman.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?
(a) Leonardo Da Vinci's.
(b) Michaelangelo's.
(c) Renoir's.
(d) Picasso's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter II?

2. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

3. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?

4. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

5. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

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