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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Donovan.
(c) Homer.
(d) Aristophanes.

2. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Tantamount.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Possible.
(d) Impossible.

3. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Alexander Kruschev.
(c) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(d) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.

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

5. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Igmar Berman.
(b) Sergei Eisenstein.
(c) Donatas Banionis.
(d) Robert Bresson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

2. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

3. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?

4. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?

5. What is the title of Chapter II?

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