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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Faith.
(c) Truth.
(d) God.

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

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Absolute laws.
(b) Governmental control.
(c) Regulation.
(d) Opinion.

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

5. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Art.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Literature.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

2. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

3. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

4. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

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

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