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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(d) Pushkin.

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

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Slow.
(b) Elitist.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Boring.

4. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Possible.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Tantamount.

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(b) I Cor 15, 1-4.
(c) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(d) I Cor 13, 1-16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

2. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

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

4. What is the title of Chapter II?

5. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?

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