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

2. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Truth.
(b) Art.
(c) Hideousness.
(d) Objectivity.

3. 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"?
(a) The Realistic Movement.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Modern art.
(d) Dadaism.

4. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Dependent.
(d) Dangerous.

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Trigger.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

2. What is the title of Chapter IV?

3. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?

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

5. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

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