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

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

2. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Ingmar Bergman.
(b) Francois Indriut.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Auguste Lumiere.

3. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Richard III.
(b) King James I.
(c) King Henry VI.
(d) King Solomon.

4. 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) University of Moscow.
(b) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(c) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(d) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.

5. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
(a) 1880.
(b) l951.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1896.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

2. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?

3. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

4. 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"?

5. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

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