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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Cold War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Russian-Siberian War.
(d) World War I.

3. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two stagnations.
(b) Two pauses.
(c) Two conflicts.
(d) Two missions.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Slow.
(b) Elitist.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Boring.

5. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Time.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Truth.
(d) Humanity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

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

4. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?

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