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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(b) Solaris.
(c) The Killers.
(d) There Will be No Leave Today.

2. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Bogomolov.
(b) Tarkovsky.
(c) Kuleshov.
(d) Smoktunovsky.

3. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1896.
(d) l951.

4. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) Gorky.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

2. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?

3. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

4. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

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

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