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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."
(a) Wall Street.
(b) Public satisfaction.
(c) Industry.
(d) Entertainment.

3. One quality of the book that Tarkovsky apologizes for in the Conclusion is its lack of what?
(a) Integrity.
(b) Literacy.
(c) Unity.
(d) Honesty.

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

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) After Nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?

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

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?

4. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?

5. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

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