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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two missions.
(b) Two conflicts.
(c) Two pauses.
(d) Two stagnations.

2. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?
(a) Michail Carwovsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Grin.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

3. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
(a) Bresson.
(b) Bruneil.
(c) Cousteau.
(d) Bergman.

4. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
(a) Vox magnum.
(b) Magnum vox.
(c) Vox populii.
(d) Mons populii.

5. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

3. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?

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

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