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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Beauty.

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1968.

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

4. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) Moscow.
(b) London.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Gorky.

5. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(b) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(c) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

2. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

3. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

4. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

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

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