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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Faith.
(b) God.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

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

4. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(b) The Killers.
(c) Solaris.
(d) There Will be No Leave Today.

5. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Yuri Nikulin.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

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

4. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

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

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