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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Understanding.

2. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Love.
(d) Art.

3. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1871.

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Polylynism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Acronymy.
(d) Metonism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

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

4. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

5. Who directed the film, Persona?

(see the answer key)

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