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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) Their past.
(b) Their happiness.
(c) Their family security.
(d) The rest of their lives.

2. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Literature.
(b) Art.
(c) Man.
(d) Cinema.

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Post-production script.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Storyboard.
(d) Production script.

4. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Faith.
(d) God.

5. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Donatas Banionis.
(b) Sergei Eisenstein.
(c) Igmar Berman.
(d) Robert Bresson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?

2. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?

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

4. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

5. 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?

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