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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) The rest of their lives.
(b) Their family security.
(c) Their past.
(d) Their happiness.

2. 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 stagnations.
(b) Two missions.
(c) Two pauses.
(d) Two conflicts.

3. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Self-denial.
(c) Self-promotion.
(d) Self-destruction.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Mankind.
(b) God.
(c) Meaning of existence.
(d) Evil.

5. The film, Stalker, was based loosely on what novel?
(a) The Last Train.
(b) Roadside Picnic.
(c) Last Night at Moscow.
(d) True Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

2. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

3. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?

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

5. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

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