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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Novosibirsk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Ukraine.

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

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

4. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Homer.

5. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Polylynism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Acronymy.
(d) Metonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

2. 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"?

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

4. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

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

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