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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Kapiyev.
(b) Stavrogin.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Ivanov.

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

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

4. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Art.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Love.
(d) Intuition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

2. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

3. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

4. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

5. When was Tarkovsky born?

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