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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Ugetsu Monogatari.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Finale.
(b) Falling placement.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Ending.

3. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) The Stalker.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) Cinema's Destined Role.
(d) The Beginning.

4. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1932.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

2. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?

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

4. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

5. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?

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