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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(b) The Beginning.
(c) Imprinted Time.
(d) The Responsibility of the Artist.

2. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Large.
(b) Slight.
(c) Overwhelming.
(d) Vague.

3. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Evgeny Zharikov.

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

5. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1968
(b) 1982.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

2. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

3. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

4. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

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