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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Shakespearean play did Tarkovsky direct for the Moscow stage?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Julius Caesar.

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1965.

3. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Alexander Mann.
(d) William Faulkner.

4. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Film Image.

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"?
(a) Time.
(b) Truth.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Cinema.

Short Answer Questions

1. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

2. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

3. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?

4. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?

5. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

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