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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Alexander Blok.

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Meaning of existence.
(b) God.
(c) Evil.
(d) Mankind.

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

4. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Killer.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Nostalgia.

5. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?

2. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

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

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