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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Truth.
(b) Time.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Humanity.

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1982.

3. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Acronymy.
(b) Polylynism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Metonism.

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

5. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.
(b) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(c) State Institute of Cinematography.
(d) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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?

3. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

4. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?

5. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

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