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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 IV?
(a) Cinema's Destined Role.
(b) The Stalker.
(c) The Beginning.
(d) After Nostalgia.

2. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?
(a) Picasso's.
(b) Michaelangelo's.
(c) Renoir's.
(d) Leonardo Da Vinci's.

3. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Ugetsu Monogatari.

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

5. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Acronymy.
(b) Polylynism.
(c) Metonism.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

2. What is the title of Chapter II?

3. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?

4. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?

5. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

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