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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Falsehood.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Trigger.
(d) Retreat.

2. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Possible.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Tantamount.

3. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Alexander Marsh.

4. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) London.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Ukraine.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

3. 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?

4. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

5. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

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