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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

3. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?
(a) Space.
(b) Time.
(c) Story.
(d) Character.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

2. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

3. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

4. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

5. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

(see the answer key)

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