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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Communicative.
(b) Determined.
(c) Expansive.
(d) Composite.

2. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

3. 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?
(a) Stalker.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Nostalgia.

4. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1974.

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Mankind.
(b) God.
(c) Meaning of existence.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

2. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?

3. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

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 Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?

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