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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Tantamount.
(d) Possible.

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

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

5. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Yuri Nikulin.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

2. What is the title of Chapter II?

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

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

5. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

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