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

2. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."
(a) Industry.
(b) Public satisfaction.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Entertainment.

3. 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) Polylynism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Acronymy.
(d) Metonism.

4. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Rublyov.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Chapayev.
(d) Marx.

5. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of, Tales of Sevastopol?

2. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

3. Who played the role of Alexander in The Sacrifice?

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

5. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?

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