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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Humphries.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Carpaccio.

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

3. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Killer.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

5. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
(a) l951.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

2. 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?

3. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

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

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

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