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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Homer.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Donovan.

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

3. 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) Beauty.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Understanding.

4. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1968
(c) 1967.
(d) 1982.

5. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Humphries.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Carpaccio.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. When was Tarkovsky born?

5. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

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