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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1966.

2. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Author in Search of an Audience.
(d) The Artist's Responsibility.

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

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

5. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?
(a) Sergei Eisenstein.
(b) Andrey Rublyov.
(c) Donatas Banionis.
(d) Luis Bunuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

2. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?

3. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

4. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

5. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?

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