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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Pushkin.

2. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?
(a) Andrey Rublyov.
(b) Donatas Banionis.
(c) Sergei Eisenstein.
(d) Luis Bunuel.

3. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?
(a) Alexander Grin.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Michail Carwovsky.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

4. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 years.

5. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?
(a) Time.
(b) Story.
(c) Character.
(d) Space.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?

2. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

3. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

4. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

5. 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"?

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