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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 Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1968

2. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) Sameul Beckett.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) James Joyce.

3. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1959.

4. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Marx.
(d) Tolstoy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

2. What French film director directed, L'Argent?

3. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

4. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?

5. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?

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