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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Regulation.
(c) Governmental control.
(d) Absolute laws.

3. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Chekhov.

4. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Tolstoy.

5. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Ugetsu Monogatari.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Alexander Blok.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter II?

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

3. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?

4. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

5. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

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