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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) Stalker.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) The Sacrifice.

2. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) Stalker.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

4. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?
(a) Bach.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Salieri.
(d) Beethoven.

5. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Art.
(b) Man.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?

2. 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?

3. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

4. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

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