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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Millardeaux.
(b) Proust.
(c) LaSalle.
(d) Bordeaux.

2. How many feature films did Tarkovsky direct?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

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

4. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Stalker.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?

3. One quality of the book that Tarkovsky apologizes for in the Conclusion is its lack of what?

4. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?

5. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

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