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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of, Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) A cafe and boulevard.
(b) A monastery.
(c) A military hospital.
(d) A school.

2. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1983.

3. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Vague.
(b) Slight.
(c) Large.
(d) Overwhelming.

4. 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) Understanding.
(b) Truth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Homer.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Aristophanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?

2. What is the title of Chapter VI?

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

4. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

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