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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Self-destruction.
(c) Self-promotion.
(d) Self-denial.

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) Established theory.
(b) What the cinema was capable of.
(c) Everything.
(d) Government.

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

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

5. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
(a) Cousteau.
(b) Bruneil.
(c) Bergman.
(d) Bresson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?

3. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

4. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?

5. What artist claimed "no acclaim could please me more than to have ordinary working people wanting to hang my lithographs in their rooms or their workshops"?

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