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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 Chapter II?
(a) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(b) The Responsibility of the Artist.
(c) The Beginning.
(d) Imprinted Time.

2. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Truth.
(d) Time.

3. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(b) Paul Valéry.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Alexander Blok.

4. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Rublyov.
(b) Marx.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Chapayev.

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Not long.
(b) Not short.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Impossible to demonstrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?

2. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?

3. Who starred in the film, Persona?

4. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?

5. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

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