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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Communicative.
(b) Determined.
(c) Composite.
(d) Expansive.

3. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) There Will be No Leave Today.
(b) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(c) The Killers.
(d) Solaris.

4. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Marsh.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

5. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) Creative.
(b) True.
(c) Assertive.
(d) Free.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?

3. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

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

5. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?

(see the answer key)

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