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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Francois Indriut.
(c) Ingmar Bergman.
(d) Auguste Lumiere.

2. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) Assertive.
(b) Free.
(c) True.
(d) Creative.

3. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Sameul Beckett.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) James Joyce.

4. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Bollingsworth.
(d) Tolstoy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

2. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?

3. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

4. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?

5. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?

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