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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1989.

2. What term does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?
(a) Poetic cinema.
(b) Realistic performance.
(c) Modern art.
(d) Stylistic art.

3. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Dependent.

4. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Richard III.
(b) King Solomon.
(c) King James I.
(d) King Henry VI.

5. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Heerkomer.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Picasso.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

2. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

3. Who wrote the book Images?

4. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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