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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Paul Valéry.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.

2. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) The Killers.

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

4. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1986.

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Governmental control.
(c) Absolute laws.
(d) Opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter II?

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

3. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

4. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

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

(see the answer key)

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