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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Alexander Blok.

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

3. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Valentin Zubkov.
(d) Nikolai Grinko.

4. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Production script.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Storyboard.
(d) Post-production script.

5. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Ingmar Bergman.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Aristophanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

3. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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

5. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?

(see the answer key)

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