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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Bollingsworth.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Hemingway.

3. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?
(a) Solaris.
(b) Andrei Rublev.
(c) Mirror.
(d) The Steamroller and the Violin.

4. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Homer.
(d) Donovan.

5. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Large.
(b) Vague.
(c) Overwhelming.
(d) Slight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

3. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

4. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

5. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

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