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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) Doestoyevsky.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Hemingway.

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) Cock.
(b) Mother.
(c) Little boy.
(d) River.

4. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

5. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What is the title of Chapter VI?

3. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

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

5. 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"?

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