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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

2. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) The Artist's Responsibility.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Author in Search of an Audience.

3. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?
(a) Prstost.
(b) Prosteete.
(c) Plrotoft.
(d) Regretsy.

4. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Paul Valéry.
(d) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.

5. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Water.
(c) Coca-Cola.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

2. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

3. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

4. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

5. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?

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