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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) God.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Evil.
(d) Meaning of existence.

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Marsh.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

3. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Hideousness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Art.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) Everything.
(b) Established theory.
(c) What the cinema was capable of.
(d) Government.

5. 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"?
(a) Modern art.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) The Realistic Movement.
(d) Mankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter II?

2. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

3. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

4. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

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