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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) Carpaccio.
(b) Michaelangelo.
(c) Humphries.
(d) Da Vinci.

2. What term does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?
(a) Poetic cinema.
(b) Modern art.
(c) Stylistic art.
(d) Realistic performance.

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

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Mankind.
(b) Meaning of existence.
(c) Evil.
(d) God.

5. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Stanislavsky.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

4. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

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

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