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

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

3. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?
(a) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(b) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(c) University of Moscow.
(d) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.

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

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 Cor 13, 1-16.
(d) I Gen, 12. 2-4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. What is the title of Chapter II?

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

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

5. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

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