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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Killers.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Morals.
(b) Understanding and love.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Point of view.

3. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Stalker.

4. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Audrey Rublyov.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

5. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Doestoyevsky.
(d) Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

2. 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"?

3. What director's cinematic version of Macbeth is discussed in Chapter V?

4. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

5. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

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