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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Robert Burns.

3. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Paul Valéry.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1959.

5. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Ivanov.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Kapiyev.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

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

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

5. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?

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