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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?
(a) Illkiu.
(b) Bishko.
(c) Juini.
(d) Basho.

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

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) For the people.
(d) Beautiful.

4. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Alexander Kruschev.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(d) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.

5. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?
(a) Mozart and Salieri.
(b) Boris Godunov.
(c) Eugene Onegin.
(d) The Covetous Knight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?

2. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?

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

4. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?

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

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