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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Da Vinci.
(c) Carpaccio.
(d) Humphries.

2. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Russian-Siberian War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) World War I.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter IX, "the more clearly I discerned the stamp of _____ on the face of our planet (irrespective of whether I was observing the West or the East), the more I came up against unhappy people"?
(a) Holiness.
(b) Godlessness.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Materialism.

4. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) Their past.
(b) Their family security.
(c) The rest of their lives.
(d) Their happiness.

5. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Sergei Eisenstein.
(b) Igmar Berman.
(c) Donatas Banionis.
(d) Robert Bresson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

3. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

4. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

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

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