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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1962.

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) Wall Street.
(c) Public satisfaction.
(d) Entertainment.

3. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1965.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Impossible to demonstrate.
(c) Not long.
(d) Not short.

5. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Truth.
(b) God.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had played the lead in all of Tarkovsky's films prior to The Sacrifice?

2. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

3. What French film director directed, L'Argent?

4. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?

5. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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